Local Recurrence Rates in Breast Cancer Patients Treated with Intraoperative Electron-Boost Radiotherapy Versus Postoperative External-Beam Electron-Boost Irradiation: A Sequential Intervention Study

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 180, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 38-44

  Reitsamer, Roland ^a   Peintinger, Florentia ^b   Kopp, Michael ^a   Menzel, Christian ^a   Kogelnik, H Dieter ^a   Sedlmayer, Felix ^a  

^a St Johanns Spital   (Austria)

^b General Hospital of Leoben   (Austria)

Author keywords

Boost irradiaton; Breast cancer; Breast conserving surgery; Intraoperative radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; FLUOROURACIL; METHOTREXATE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; TAMOXIFEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE NECROSIS; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SURGERY; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; ELECTRON BEAM; ELECTRON BOOST IRRADIATION; ELECTRON BOOST RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; IRRADIATION; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METASTASIS; PEROPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RIB; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME; WOUND HEALING;

ADULT; AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL; CARCINOMA, INTRADUCTAL, NONINFILTRATING; CARCINOMA, LOBULAR; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

EID: 0346058020     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-004-1190-9     Document Type: Article

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