Late effects and cosmetic results of conventional versus hypofractionated irradiation in breast-conserving therapy

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 181, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 625-631

  Fehlauer, Fabian ^a   Tribius, Silke ^a   Alberti, Winfried ^a   Rades, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Cosmesis; Hypofractionation; Late toxicity; LENT SOMA; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANALGESIA; ARM EDEMA; ARTICLE; BREAST ATROPHY; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CONSERVING THERAPY; BREAST FIBROSIS; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTALGIA; MORBIDITY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION RESPONSE; TELANGIECTASIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 26444513575     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-005-1404-9     Document Type: Article

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