Tolerance of half-body irradiation as systemic therapy for patients with locally advanced breast cancer

Medical and Pediatric Oncology

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 558-562

  Gocheva, Lilia ^a,c   Todorov, Jordan ^a   Danon, Samuel ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^b National Oncology Center Bulgaria   (Bulgaria)

^c NONE   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Half body irradiation; Locally advanced breast cancer; Systemic treatment of breast cancer

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; METHOTREXATE;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CELL KILLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CYTOSTASIS; DRUG EFFECT; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; MALE; NAUSEA; PAROTITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; VOMITING; XEROSTOMIA;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS, MALE; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; DOSE FRACTIONATION; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMIBODY IRRADIATION; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NAUSEA; PNEUMONIA; RECURRENCE; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0032753830     PISSN: 00981532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-911X(199912)33:6<558::AID-MPO6>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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