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Organs at Risk

"Organs at Risk" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Organs which might be damaged during exposure to a toxin or to some form of therapy. It most frequently refers to healthy organs located in the radiation field during radiation therapy.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Organs at Risk" by people in this website by year, and whether "Organs at Risk" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 32 publications over 13 distinct years, with a maximum of 5 publications in 2016
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