Preliminary reliability and validity testing of a new Skin Toxicity Assessment Tool (STAT) in breast cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy

American Journal of Clinical Oncology: Cancer Clinical Trials

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 626-631

  Berthelet, Eric ^a,c   Truong, Pauline T ^a,c   Musso, Karin ^a   Grant, Vickie ^a   Kwan, Winkle ^a,c   Moravan, Veronika ^b   Patterson, Kelly ^a   Olivotto, Ivo A ^a,c  

^a BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^b Fraser Valley Centre ^*  (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Radiation; Skin toxicity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; PARAMETER; RADIATION SICKNESS; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SKIN MANIFESTATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TOXICITY TESTING;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS; RADIODERMATITIS; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; SKIN; TOXICITY TESTS;

EID: 10044290639     PISSN: 02773732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.coc.0000138965.97476.0f     Document Type: Article

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