Clinical experience in breast irradiation with intensity modulated photon beams

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 467-474

  Cozzi, Luca ^a,b   Fogliata, Antonella ^a   Nicolini, Giorgia ^a   Bernier, Jacques ^a  

^a ONCOLOGY INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

^b OSPEDALE SAN GIOVANNI   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART DISEASE; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; LIGHT; LUNG DISEASE; MASTECTOMY; PHOTON; PHOTOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; THORAX WALL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART; HUMANS; LUNG; LYMPHATIC IRRADIATION; MASTECTOMY; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 23944476328     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02841860510029879     Document Type: Article

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