Current status and perspectives of brachytherapy for breast cancer

International Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 7-24

  Polgár, Csaba ^a   Major, Tibor ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Accelerated partial breast irradiation; Brachytherapy; Breast cancer; Local recurrence; Tumor bed boost

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; TAMOXIFEN;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST CANCER; BREAST ENDOPROSTHESIS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL RADIATION; IRRADIATION; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; MASTECTOMY; PHOTON THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION APPLICATOR; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOISOTOPE THERAPY; REVIEW; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 60649106823     PISSN: 13419625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10147-008-0867-y     Document Type: Review

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