Planning the Breast Boost: Comparison of Three Techniques and Evolution of Tumor Bed During Treatment

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 458-463

  Hepel, Jaroslaw T ^a,b   Evans, Suzanne B ^a,b   Hiatt, Jessica R ^b   Price, Lori Lyn ^c   DiPetrillo, Thomas ^a,b   Wazer, David E ^a,b   MacAusland, Stephanie G ^b  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Electron boost; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL TECHNIQUES; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES; CT SCANS; CT SIMULATIONS; DECREASE IN VOLUMES; PLANNING TECHNIQUES; SURGICAL CLIPS; TARGET VOLUMES; TUMOR BEDS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY; TARGETS; VISUALIZATION;

TUMORS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLIP; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY BASED PLANNING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON BOOST PLANNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PALPATION CLINICAL BASED PLANNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAR BASED PLANNING; SURGICAL CLIP; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CICATRIX; ELECTRONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; PALPATION; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 67349143646     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2008.08.051     Document Type: Article

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