Accelerated partial breast irradiation: Where do we go from here?

Breast Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 303-305

  Haffty, Bruce G ^a  

^a ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALLOON CATHETER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INFECTION COMPLICATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERSTITIAL RADIATION; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PATIENT CARE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; SAFETY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADJUVANT THERAPY; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NOTE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION RESPONSE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEGMENTAL MASTECTOMY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 27744583707     PISSN: 1075122X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1075-122X.2005.21749.x     Document Type: Editorial

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