Is adjuvant hypofractionated radiotherapy appropriate for elderly patients with breast cancer?

Nature Clinical Practice Oncology

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 244-2145

  Recht, Abram ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjuvant radiotherapy; Breast cancer; Elderly patients; Hypofractionation

Indexed keywords

TAMOXIFEN;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; AGED; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MASTECTOMY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION DOSE; SHORT SURVEY; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT;

EID: 20444482895     PISSN: 17434254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncponc0166     Document Type: Short Survey

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