What Do Recent Studies on Lumpectomy Cavity Volume Change Imply for Breast Clinical Target Volumes?

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-3

  Kim, Leonard H ^a   Vicini, Frank ^a   Yan, Di ^a  

^a WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TARGET VOLUME; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEASUREMENT; MECHANICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROMA; SIMULATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; VOLUMETRY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS; SEROMA; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 49549118964     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2008.04.080     Document Type: Editorial

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