Timing of radiotherapy and survival benefit in breast cancer

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 289-294

  Jobsen, Jan J ^a   Van Der Palen, Job ^a   Ong, Francisca ^a   Meerwaldt, Jacobus H ^a  

^a MEDISCH SPECTRUM TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RELAPSE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ELECTRON THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRRADIATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METASTASIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RECURRENCE RISK; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33748369309     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10549-006-9217-9     Document Type: Article

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