Causes of unplanned interruption of radiotherapy;Causas de interrupção não-programadas da radioterapia

Radiologia Brasileira

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 103-108

  Diegues, Sylvia Suelotto ^a,c   Ciconelli, Rozana Mesquita ^b   Segreto, Roberto Araujo ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL ALEMÃO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cancer; Interruptions; Radiotherapy; Treatment

Indexed keywords

EID: 45349108737     PISSN: 01003984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0100-39842008000200009     Document Type: Article

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