Intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) reduces the dose to the contralateral breast when compared to conventional tangential fields for primary breast irradiation

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 41-46

  Bhatnagar, Ajay K ^a   Brandner, Edward ^a   Sonnik, Deborah ^a   Wu, Andrew ^a   Kalnicki, Shalom ^b   Deutsch, Melvin ^a   Heron, Dwight E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Contralateral breast dose; Intensity modulated radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETER; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33645235437     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10549-005-9032-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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