Results of chest wall reirradiation using pulsed-dose-rate (PDR) brachytherapy molds for breast cancer local recurrences

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 205-210

  Harms, Wolfgang ^a   Krempien, Robert ^a   Hensley, Frank W ^a   Berns, Christiane ^a   Wannenmacher, Michael ^a   Fritz, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b St Marien Krankenhaus Siegen gem GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Pulsed dose rate brachytherapy; Radiotherapy; Reirradiation

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; IRIDIUM 192; METHOTREXATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; METASTASIS; MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION INJURY; RECURRENT CANCER; RETREATMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARD; SURVIVAL RATE; TELANGIECTASIA; THORAX WALL; TOXICITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ANATOMIC; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PHYSICS; RADIODERMATITIS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; THORAX;

EID: 0035173767     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(00)01360-2     Document Type: Article

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