Early Experience of Tomotherapy-based Intensity-modulated Radiotherapy for Breast Cancer Treatment

Clinical Oncology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 294-301

  O'Donnell, H ^a   Cooke, K ^b   Walsh, N ^b   Plowman, P N ^a,b  

^a ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b CROMWELL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breast radiotherapy; IMRT; tomotherapy

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; DOSIMETRY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; TOMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 62749126634     PISSN: 09366555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clon.2009.01.010     Document Type: Article

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