Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation: Caution and Concern From an ASTRO Task Force

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 981-984

  Prosnitz, Leonard R ^a   Horton, Janet ^a   Wallner, Paul E ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b 21ST CENTURY ONCOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; IRRADIATION; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION SICKNESS; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADVISORY COMMITTEES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; PATIENT SELECTION; RADIATION ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67649556943     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.03.046     Document Type: Editorial

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