Technology Insight: MammoSite® - A new device for delivering brachytherapy following breast-conserving therapy

Nature Clinical Practice Oncology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 190-196

  Dickler, Adam ^a  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM THERAPY; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST CANCER; CATHETER; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEVICE; ECHOGRAPHY; ESTHETICS; HUMAN; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

BALLOON DILATATION; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CARCINOMA, INTRADUCTAL, NONINFILTRATING; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 33847638446     PISSN: 17434254     EISSN: 17434262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncponc0739     Document Type: Review

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