Patient selection for NSABP B-39/RTOG 0413: Have we posed the right questions in the right way?

Brachytherapy

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 119-122

  Sanghani, Mona ^a   Wazer, David E ^b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE INHIBITOR; TAMOXIFEN;

BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL TRIAL; EDITORIAL; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLINICAL TRIALS, PHASE III; FEMALE; HEMIBODY IRRADIATION; HUMANS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; NORTH AMERICA; PATIENT SELECTION; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SELECTION BIAS; WHOLE-BODY IRRADIATION;

EID: 34047265013     PISSN: 15384721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brachy.2007.01.002     Document Type: Editorial

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