Breast irradiation with three conformal photon fields for patients with high lung involvement

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 558-566

  Cozzi, Luca ^a,d   Fogliata, Antonella ^a   Nicolini, Giorgia ^a   Rancati, Tiziana ^b   Bernier, Jacques ^c  

^a ONCOLOGY INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

^b Division of Radiation Oncology   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^d OSPEDALE SAN GIOVANNI   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IRRADIATION; LIGHT; LUNG; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION PNEUMONIA;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 4844230339     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02841860410015280     Document Type: Article

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