Consistency in seroma contouring for partial breast radiotherapy: Impact of guidelines

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 372-376

  Wong, Elaine K ^a   Truong, Pauline T ^a,c   Kader, Hosam A ^a,c   Nichol, Alan M ^b,c   Salter, Lee ^a   Petersen, Ross ^a   Wai, Elaine S ^a,c   Weir, Lorna ^b,c   Olivotto, Ivo A ^a,c  

^a BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^b Vancouver Cancer Centre   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Consistency; Contouring; Guidelines; Partial breast radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

CELLS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ONCOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; RADIATION EFFECTS;

CLINICAL TARGET VOLUME (CTV); CONTOURING; PARTIAL BREAST RADIATION THERAPY; RADIATION ONCOLOGISTS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROMA; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; SEROMA;

EID: 33748324617     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2006.05.066     Document Type: Article

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