Partial breast irradiation as sole therapy for low risk breast carcinoma: Early toxicity, cosmesis and quality of life results of a MammoSite brachytherapy phase II study

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 23-29

  Belkacémi, Yazid ^a,b,c   Chauvet, Marie Pierre ^b   Giard, Sylvia ^b   Villette, Sylviane ^a   Lacornerie, Thomas ^a   Bonodeau, François ^b   Baranzelli, Marie Christine ^b   Bonneterre, Jacques ^b,c   Lartigau, Eric ^a,c  

^a Oscar Lambret Anti Cancer Center   (France)

^b CENTRE OSCAR LAMBRET   (France)

^c UNIV LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Breast cancer; MammoSite; Partial breast irradiation; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ALLERGIC REACTION; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; BREAST FIBROSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; EMOTION; ERYTHEMA; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; MASTALGIA; MASTITIS; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION DOSE; SEROMA; SKIN INFLAMMATION; SKIN MANIFESTATION; SOCIAL ASPECT; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA; TELANGIECTASIA;

AGED; BALLOON DILATATION; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DOSE FRACTIONATION; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 58149260250     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2008.06.004     Document Type: Article

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