Pulsed dose rate brachytherapy as the sole adjuvant radiotherapy after breast-conserving surgery of T1-T2 breast cancer: First long time results from a clinical study

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 30-35

  Johansson, Bengt ^a   Karlsson, Leif ^a   Liljegren, Göran ^a   Hardell, Lennart ^a   Persliden, Jan ^a  

^a ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Accelerated partial breast irradiation; Brachytherapy; Breast cancer; Cosmetics; Outcome; Pulsed dose rate; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADJUVANT THERAPY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST FIBROSIS; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER GRADING; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DERMATITIS; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; ESTHETICS; FAT NECROSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL RADIATION; MASTALGIA; MASTECTOMY; MASTITIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RECURRENT CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 58149235035     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2008.02.022     Document Type: Article

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