Radiation Options for Early Stage Breast Cancer

Seminars in Oncology Nursing

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 233-241

  Moore Higgs, Giselle J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING; NURSING ASSESSMENT; ONCOLOGY; ONCOLOGY NURSING; PATHOLOGY; PEROPERATIVE CARE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; SEGMENTAL MASTECTOMY; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DOSE FRACTIONATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING ASSESSMENT; ONCOLOGIC NURSING; RADIATION ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL;

EID: 33750628557     PISSN: 07492081     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soncn.2006.07.005     Document Type: Article

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