Xoft Axxent® electronic brachytherapy - A new device for delivering brachytherapy to the breast

Nature Clinical Practice Oncology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 138-142

  Dickler, Adam ^a  

^a Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

IRIDIUM 192;

ACCELERATED PARTIAL BREAST IRRADIATION; BALLOON CATHETER; BLISTER; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST CANCER; BREAST DISEASE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEVICE THERAPY; ERYTHEMA; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FAT NECROSIS; FATIGUE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MASTALGIA; MASTITIS; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; REVIEW; SEROMA; TELANGIECTASIA; CANCER RECURRENCE; DRUG MEGADOSE; INFECTION; PAIN; BREAST TUMOR; ELECTRONICS; FEMALE; INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION RESPONSE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTRONICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 61849109321     PISSN: 17434254     EISSN: 17434262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncponc1319     Document Type: Review

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