Lung and cardiac tissue doses in left breast cancer patients treated with single-source breast brachytherapy compared to external beam tangent fields

Brachytherapy

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 235-238

  Garza, Richard ^a   Albuquerque, Kevin ^a   Sethi, Anil ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Breast cancer; Heart complications; Lung complications; MammoSite; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HEART; HEART DISEASE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; LUNG PARENCHYMA; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION APPLICATOR; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION INJURY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; LUNG; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33750972290     PISSN: 15384721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brachy.2006.08.001     Document Type: Article

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