Pulsed reduced dose-rate radiotherapy: A novel locoregional retreatment strategy for breast cancer recurrence in the previously irradiated chest wall, axilla, or supraclavicular region

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 307-313

  Richards, Gregory M ^a   Tomé, Wolfgang A ^a   Robins, H Ian ^a   Stewart, James A ^a   Welsh, James S ^a   Mahler, Peter A ^a   Howard, Steven P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Radiotherapy; Recurrence; Reduced dose rate; Reirradiation

Indexed keywords

CAPECITABINE;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLA; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LOW DRUG DOSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURY; RADIOSENSITIZATION; RETREATMENT; SKIN TOXICITY; THORAX WALL; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADULT; AGED; AXILLA; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLAVICLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RETREATMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACIC NEOPLASMS; THORACIC WALL;

EID: 59449106669     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: 15737217     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10549-008-9995-3     Document Type: Article

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