Acta oncologica
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE. Many breast cancer survivors (BCS) suffer from long-term upper limb morbidities after axillary node dissection. The purpose of this five-year follow-up study was to describe changes in long-term upper limb morbidities, physical activity level, and Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) and to find factors that predict HRQoL five years after surgery. ⋯ CONCLUSIONS. The overall HRQoL improved significantly from baseline to five years, despite the chronic arm pain and increase in ALE. Three independent predictive factors of HRQoL were identified.
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Recently, Varian Medical Systems have announced the introduction of a new treatment technique, in which dose is delivered over a single gantry rotation with variable MLC positions, dose rate and gantry speed. In February 2008, a preclinical installation of the RapidArc beam delivery approach was carried out on a Varian Clinac at Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen. The purpose of the installation was to perform measurements to verify the correctness of doses delivered with the RapidArc technique. In May 2008, the clinical release of the RapidArc application was installed at Rigshospitalet. ⋯ The delivery of RapidArc beam delivery has been verified to correspond well with calculated dose distributions for a number of different cases. The delivery was very reproducible, and was carried out with high stability of the accelerator performance.