Patterns of care study: Comparison of process of post-mastectomy radiotherapy (PMRT) in Japan and the USA

Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 518-521

  Shikama, Naoto ^a,c   Nishikawa, Atsushi ^a   Mitsumori, Michihide ^a   Hiraoka, Masahiro ^a   Yamamoto, Tokihiro ^a   Teshima, Teruki ^a   Inoue, Toshihiko ^a   Wilson, Frank ^b   Owen, Jean ^b  

^a Japanese PCS Working Subgroup of Breast Cancer   (Japan)

^b AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RADIOLOGY   (United States)

^c SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Mastectomy; Patterns of care; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; JAPAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; PATIENT CARE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; SIMULATION; THORAX WALL; TREATMENT PLANNING; UNITED STATES; X RAY; ADJUVANT THERAPY; BREAST TUMOR; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; RADIATION DOSE; STATISTICS;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; JAPAN; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MASTECTOMY, MODIFIED RADICAL; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0642372939     PISSN: 03682811     EISSN: 14653621     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jjco/hyg095     Document Type: Article

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