Intensity-modulated radiation therapy for breast cancer: Improving treatment efficacy

American Journal of Cancer

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 237-245

  Vicini, Frank A ^a   Sharpe, Michael ^a   Kestin, Larry ^a   Martinez, Alvaro ^a   Wong, John ^a  

^a WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACUTE TOXICITY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CARDIOTOXICITY; CHRONIC TOXICITY; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; DATA ANALYSIS; DOSIMETRY; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; HEART VOLUME; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMOBILIZATION; INFECTION COMPLICATION; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LUNG VOLUME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTALGIA; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIATION RESPONSE; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SKIN FIBROSIS; SKIN TOXICITY; STANDARD; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL; TELANGIECTASIA; THORAX WALL RECONSTRUCTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0042885371     PISSN: 11756357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00024669-200201040-00001     Document Type: Review

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