Radiation therapy planning with photons and protons for early and advanced breast cancer: An overview

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Weber, Damien C ^a,b   Ares, Carmen ^a   Lomax, Antony J ^a   Kurtz, John M ^b  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTON;

BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PHOTON; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOTHERAPY; REVIEW; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; PHOTONS; PROTONS; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34248590340     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-1-22     Document Type: Review

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