Whole-breast radiotherapy with shorter fractionation schedules following breast-conserving surgery: Short-term morbidity and preliminary outcomes

Breast Cancer

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 86-92

  Fujii, Osamu ^a,c   Hiratsuka, Jyunichi ^a   Nagase, Naomi ^a   Tokiya, Ryuji ^a   Yoden, Eisaku ^a   Sonoo, Hiroshi ^a   Murashima, Nobutaka ^b   Iha, Shigemichi ^b   Imajyo, Yoshinari ^a  

^a KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b University of Tokyo   (Japan)

^c HYOGO CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Breast conserving therapy; Radiotherapy; Short fractionation

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION RESPONSE; SEGMENTAL MASTECTOMY; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DOSE FRACTIONATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 43149115184     PISSN: 13406868     EISSN: 18804233     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12282-007-0010-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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