Internal mammary and medial supraclavicular lymph node irradiation: The thin line between advantages and side effects

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 75-77

  Lievens, Yolande ^a   Van Den Bogaert, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPH NODE IRRADIATION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MASTECTOMY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION HAZARD; AXILLA; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER STAGING; CLAVICLE; FEMALE; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY; THORAX;

AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLAVICLE; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC IRRADIATION; NEOPLASM STAGING; THORAX;

EID: 0036850444     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8140(02)00285-2     Document Type: Editorial

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