Regional nodal recurrence in breast cancer patients treated with conservative surgery and radiation therapy (BCS+RT)

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1320-1327

  Pejavar, Sunanda ^a   Wilson, Lynn D ^a   Haffty, Bruce G ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Prognostic factors; Radiation; Regional nodes; Sentinel node

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BIOPSY; ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY; SURGERY; TUMORS;

BREAST CANCER; PROGNOSTIC FACTORS; REGIONAL NODES; SENTINEL NODES;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

HORMONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RELAPSE; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RECURRENT CANCER; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

ADULT; AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC IRRADIATION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33751172930     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2006.07.1379     Document Type: Article

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