Review Article

Review of Breast Conservation Therapy: Then and Now

Figure 5

Prone breast treatment positioning: notice the avoidance of the heart and the rib cage in the treatment fields. The prone position has avoided the folding of the breast onto the upper abdominal skin, and thus reduced the dose delivered in the inframammary fold.
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