Deep inspiration breath-hold for mediastinal lymphoma patients: Evaluation of a 5-year service

Katie S Jones; Amanda Webster; Georgios Ntentas; Jessica L Brady; N George Mikhaeel

doi:10.1016/j.tipsro.2022.04.003

Deep inspiration breath-hold for mediastinal lymphoma patients: Evaluation of a 5-year service

Tech Innov Patient Support Radiat Oncol. 2022 Apr 9:22:26-29. doi: 10.1016/j.tipsro.2022.04.003. eCollection 2022 Jun.

Authors

Katie S Jones¹, Amanda Webster^{1

2}, Georgios Ntentas^{3

4}, Jessica L Brady⁵, N George Mikhaeel⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Radiotherapy, Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
² Department of Radiotherapy, University College Hospital, London, UK.
³ Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford UK.
⁴ Department of Medical Physics, Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
⁵ Department of Clinical Oncology, Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.

Abstract

Deep inspiration breath-hold (DIBH) is an advanced radiotherapy technique that has been shown to have dosimetric benefits in the treatment of patients with mediastinal lymphoma. Whilst there is much published data on the use of DIBH in breast radiotherapy, reports on the use of the technique in mediastinal lymphoma patients remain limited. As the first NHS centre in the UK to implement DIBH in this pt group, we have evaluated our experience and success in using this technique over a 5 year period.