Deep inspiration breath hold versus free breathing in postoperative radiotherapy strategy for patients with left-sided breast cancer treated with volumetric modulated arc therapy: A meta-analysis and systematic review

• Pin-Yi Chiang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Pin-Yi Chiang, Pin-Jui Huang, Ching-Po Lin, Chih-Chia Chang

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Radiation Oncology, Ditmanson Medical Foundation Chia-Yi Christian Hospital, Chiayi City, Taiwan, Ph.D. Program of Interdisciplinary Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei City, Taiwan

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• Pin-Jui Huang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Pin-Yi Chiang, Pin-Jui Huang, Ching-Po Lin, Chih-Chia Chang

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Ph.D. Program of Interdisciplinary Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei City, Taiwan, Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Dajia Lee Hospital, Taichung City, Taiwan

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• Chao-Hsiung Hung,

  Roles Data curation, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Chiayi Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chiayi County, Taiwan

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• Ching-Po Lin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Pin-Yi Chiang, Pin-Jui Huang, Ching-Po Lin, Chih-Chia Chang

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: 07229@cych.org.tw (CCC); chingpolin@gmail.com (CPL)

  Affiliations Ph.D. Program of Interdisciplinary Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei City, Taiwan, Institute of Neuroscience, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei City, Taiwan, Department of Education and Research, Taipei City Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan

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• Chih-Chia Chang

  Contributed equally to this work with: Pin-Yi Chiang, Pin-Jui Huang, Ching-Po Lin, Chih-Chia Chang

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: 07229@cych.org.tw (CCC); chingpolin@gmail.com (CPL)

  Affiliations Department of Radiation Oncology, Ditmanson Medical Foundation Chia-Yi Christian Hospital, Chiayi City, Taiwan, Department of Nursing, Chung-Jen Junior College of Nursing, Health Sciences and Management, Chiayi County, Taiwan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1893-4808

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