Radiotherapy of the chest wall following mastectomy for early-stage breast cancer: Impact on local recurrence and overall survival

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 967-975

  Janni, Wolfgang ^a,c   Dimpfl, Thomas ^a   Braun, Stephan ^a   Knobbe, Angelika ^a   Peschers, Ursula ^a   Rjosk, Dorothea ^a   Lampe, Bjoern ^a   Genz, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Garmisch Partenkirchen   (Germany)

^c LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adjuvant radiotherapy; Breast neoplasm; Local recurrence; Mastectomy

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER STAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; THORAX WALL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; LYMPHEDEMA; MASTECTOMY, RADICAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034333027     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(00)00743-4     Document Type: Article

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