Risk of hypothyroidism in older breast cancer patients treated with radiation

Cancer

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1371-1379

  Smith, Grace L ^a   Smith, Benjamin D ^b   Giordano, Sharon H ^a   Shih, Ya Chen T ^a   Woodward, Wendy A ^a   Strom, Eric A ^a   Perkins, George H ^a   Tereffe, Welela ^a   Tse, Kuan Yu ^a   Buchholz, Thomas A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b WILFORD HALL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Hypothyroidism; Late effects; Radiation; Survivorship

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HAZARD RATIO; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INCIDENCE; LYMPH NODE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RADIATION HAZARD; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL ASPECT;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CARCINOMA, LOBULAR; COHORT STUDIES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MASTECTOMY; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RISK FACTORS; SEER PROGRAM;

EID: 41149097064     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.23307     Document Type: Article

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