Local-regional control of recurrent breast carcinoma after mastectomy: Does hyperfractionated accelerated radiotherapy improve local control?

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 105-112

  Ballo, Matthew T ^a   Strom, Eric A ^a   Prost, Hank ^a   Singletary, S Eva ^a   Theriault, Richard L ^a   Buchholz, Thomas A ^a   McNeese, Marsha D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acceleration; Breast cancer; Hyperfractionation; Local regional control; Radiotherapy; Recurrence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER INHIBITION; CANCER SURVIVAL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RECURRENT CANCER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033011222     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(98)00545-8     Document Type: Article

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