Radiation to supraclavicular and internal mammary lymph nodes in breast cancer increases the risk of stroke

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 811-816

  Nilsson, G ^a   Holmberg, L ^a,b   Garmo, H ^a,b   Terent, A ^a   Blomqvist, C ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Cerebral infarction; Cerebrovascular; Radiotherapy; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; AROMATASE INHIBITOR; TAMOXIFEN;

AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLA; BRAIN EMBOLISM; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN REGION; BREAST; BREAST CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CEREBRAL PALSY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COBALT THERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY LYMPH NODE; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE IRRADIATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUPRACLAVICULAR LYMPH NODE; THORAX WALL; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CLAVICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC IRRADIATION; MAMMARY GLANDS, HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STROKE;

EID: 61749087305     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6604902     Document Type: Article

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