Interstitial high-dose-rate brachytherapy boost: The feasibility and cosmetic outcome of a fractionated outpatient delivery scheme

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1301-1306

  Manning, Matthew A ^a   Arthur, Douglas W ^a,b   Schmidt Ullrich, Rupert K ^a   Arnfield, Mark R ^a   Amir, Cyrus ^a   Zwicker, Robert D ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Boost; Brachytherapy; Breast cancer; High dose rate

Indexed keywords

COSMETIC; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; METHOTREXATE; PARACETAMOL; TAMOXIFEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; BRAIN METASTASIS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CATHETER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEATH; EARLY CANCER; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; FOLLOW UP; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; INTERSTITIAL RADIATION; OUTPATIENT; PAIN; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TELANGIECTASIA; TOXICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; DOSE FRACTIONATION; ESTHETICS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034565045     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(00)00792-6     Document Type: Article

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