The use of radiation as a component of breast conservation therapy in National Comprehensive Cancer Network centers

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 361-369

  Buchholz, Thomas A ^a   Theriault, Richard L ^a   Niland, Joyce C ^a   Hughes, Melissa E ^a   Ottesen, Rebecca ^a   Edge, Stephen B ^a   Bookman, Michael A ^a   Weeks, Jane C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CENTER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ADJUVANT THERAPY; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER INVASION; CLINICAL TRIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PAGET NIPPLE DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEGMENTAL MASTECTOMY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AGED; BENCHMARKING; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, INTRADUCTAL, NONINFILTRATING; COMORBIDITY; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33644847065     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2005.02.3127     Document Type: Article

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