Irradiation of the tumor bed alone after lumpectomy in selected patients with early-stage breast cancer treated with breast conserving therapy

Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 33-40

  Vicini, Frank ^a   Kini, Vijay R ^a   Chen, Peter ^a   Horwitz, Eric ^a   Gustafson, Gary ^a   Benitez, Pamela ^a   Edmundson, Greg ^a   Goldstein, Neal ^a   McCarthy, Kevin ^b   Martinez, Alvaro ^a  

^a WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Breast conserving therapy

Indexed keywords

IODINE 125;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL TRIAL; EARLY CANCER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032891530     PISSN: 00224790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9098(199901)70:1<33::AID-JSO6>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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