Radiotherapy for breast cancer in countries with limited resources: Program implementation and evidence-based recommendations

Breast Journal

Volumn 12, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2006, Pages

  Bese, Nuran Senel ^a   Kiel, Krystyna ^b   El Gueddari, Brahim El Khalil ^c   Campbell, Oladapo Babatunde ^d   Awuah, Baffour ^e   Vikram, Bhadrasain ^f  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Morocco)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

^e KOMFO ANOKYE TEACHING HOSPITAL   (Ghana)

^f INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Developing countries; Health resources; Radiation oncology; Radiation therapy; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

COBALT 60;

ADVANCED CANCER; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BONE METASTASIS; BRAIN METASTASIS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EARLY CANCER; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INOPERABLE CANCER; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHEDEMA; MASTECTOMY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; REVIEW; SAFETY; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR BLEEDING; ULCER;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; RADIOTHERAPY; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 33644906176     PISSN: 1075122X     EISSN: 15244741     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1075-122X.2006.00209.x     Document Type: Review

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