Should breathing adapted radiotherapy also be applied for right-sided breast irradiation?

Voluntary moderate deep inspiration breath-hold (vmDIBH) is widely used for left sided breast cancer patients. The purpose of this study was to investigate the usefulness of vmDIBH in local and locoregional radiation therapy (RT) of right-sided breast cancer. For fourteen right-sided breast cancer patients, 3D-conformal (3D-CRT) RT plans (i.e., forward IMRT) were calculated on free-breathing (FB) 3D-CRT(FB) and vmDIBHCT-scans, for local- as well as locoregional breast treatment, with and without internal mammary nodes (IMN). Dose volume parameters were compared. For local breast treatment, no relevant reduction in mean lung dose (MLD) was found. For locoregional breast treatment without IMN, the average MLD reduced from 6.5 to 5.4 Gy (p