Point: Brachytherapy for accelerated partial breast irradiation

Brachytherapy

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 181-183

  Wazer, David E ^a,b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATED PARTIAL BREAST IRRADIATION; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION INJURY; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 65449131548     PISSN: 15384721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brachy.2009.02.003     Document Type: Note

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