Significance of breast boost volume changes during radiotherapy in relation to current clinical interobserver variations

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 60-65

  Hurkmans, Coen ^a   Admiraal, Marjan ^a   van der Sangen, Maurice ^a   Dijkmans, Ingrid ^a  

^a CATHARINA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiotherapy; Boost volume changes; Breast cancer; Integrated boost; Interobserver variation; Partial breast irradiation; Treatment planning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; ONCOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 58149216875     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2007.12.001     Document Type: Article

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