Irradiation of the heart during tangential breast treatment: A study within the START trial

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 77, Issue 914, 2004, Pages 137-142

  Venables, K ^a   Miles, E A ^a   Deighton, A ^a   Aird, Edwin E G A ^a   Hoskin, Peter J ^a   Barrett, Jane ^b   Barrett Lee, Peter ^b   Bliss, Judith ^b   Brown, Jackie ^b   Dewar, John ^b   Dobbs, Jane ^b   Haviland, Jo ^b   Hopwood, Penny ^b   Lawton, Pat ^b   Magee, Brian ^b   Mills, Judith ^b   Morgan, David ^b   Owen, Roger ^b   Parkin, Eileen ^b   Pritchard, Joyce ^b   Speechely, Val ^b   Spooner, David ^b   Sydenham, Mark ^b   Winfield, Elizabeth ^b   Yarnold, John ^b   more..

^a MOUNT VERNON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEART; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION FIELD; RADIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT PLANNING; UNITED KINGDOM; VOLUMETRY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; RADIATION INJURIES;

EID: 12144287292     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr/11764177     Document Type: Article

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