Accelerated partial breast irradiation: Technically feasible but who will benefit

Breast Cancer Research

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 110-112

  Ross, Gillian ^a  

^a ROYAL MARSDEN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARDIOTOXICITY; DOSE CALCULATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MASTALGIA; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK REDUCTION; TARGET ORGAN; THORAX PAIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PATIENT SELECTION; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT;

EID: 18944403304     PISSN: 14655411     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/bcr1016     Document Type: Article

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