Is there a life-long risk of brachial plexopathy after radiotherapy of supraclavicular lymph nodes in breast cancer patients?

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 297-301

  Bajrovic, Amira ^a   Rades, Dirk ^a   Fehlauer, Fabian ^a   Tribius, Silke ^a   Hoeller, Ulrike ^a   Rudat, Volker ^a   Jung, Horst ^a   Alberti, Winfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brachial plexopathy; Breast cancer; Late morbidity; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

TAMOXIFEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; BRACHIAL PLEXUS NEUROPATHY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INSTRUMENTATION; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LYMPH NODE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHIAL PLEXUS NEUROPATHIES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC IRRADIATION; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 2542458263     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2004.03.005     Document Type: Article

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