Table 7.
NTCP of heart, lung, and skin in nominal PB‐PB, PB‐MC, and MC‐MC plans of breast cancer.
| Patient # | Heart | Skin | Ipsilateral Lung | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NTCP (%) | NTCP (%) | NTCP (%) | |||||||
| PB‐PB | PB‐MC | MC‐MC | PB‐PB | PB‐MC | MC‐MC | PB‐PB | PB‐MC | MC‐MC | |
| 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.8 |
| 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.9 |
| 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.6 |
| 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.5 |
| 6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.7 | 1.9 | 1.8 |
| 7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 0.9 |
| 8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.8 |
| 9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 0.8 |
| 10 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 1.5 | 1.6 | 1.6 |
| Average | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| SD | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| P‐value | 0.968a | 0.968b | 0.674a | 0.936b | 0.384a | 0.674b | |||
PB‐PB, PB optimization followed by PB dose calculation; PB‐MC, PB optimization followed by MC dose calculation; MC‐MC, MC optimization followed by MC dose calculation; NTCP, normal tissue complication probability.
P‐value for PB‐MC vs. PB‐PB.
P‐value for MC‐MC vs. PB‐PB.