DOSE-VOLUME PREDICTORS OF CARDIAC ADVERSE EVENTS AFTER HIGH-DOSE THORACIC RADIATION THERAPY FOR LUNG CANCER: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS

Dose-volume predictors of cardiac adverse events after high-dose thoracic radiation therapy for lung cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Abstract Background Lung cancer is a leading cause of cancer mortality and may require high-dose thoracic radiation therapy (RT).However, RT significantly increases the risk of radiation-induced cardiac events, such as pericarditis, cardiomyopathy, and ischemic heart diseases.Despite evidence from clinical trials showing that higher RT doses are as

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Species composition of the free living multicellular invertebrate animals (Metazoa: Invertebrata) from the Bulgarian sector of the Black Sea and the coastal brackish basins

A total of 19 types, 39 classes, 123 orders, 470 families and 1537 species are known from the Bulgarian Black Sea.They include 1054 species (68.6%) of marine and marine-brackish forms and 508 species (33.0%) of freshwater-brackish, freshwater and terrestrial forms, connected with water.Five types (Nematoda, Rotifera, Annelida, Arthropoda and Mollus

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