Radiation Techniques and Toxicities for Locally Advanced Breast Cancer

Seminars in Radiation Oncology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 244-255

  Moran, Meena S ^a   Haffty, Bruce G ^b,c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c RUTGERS CANCER INSTITUTE OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE; TRASTUZUMAB;

BRACHIAL PLEXUS NEUROPATHY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CARDIOTOXICITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LUNG TOXICITY; LYMPHEDEMA; MASTECTOMY; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION PNEUMONIA; RADIATION SAFETY; REVIEW; THORAX WALL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING;

AXILLA; BRACHIAL PLEXUS NEUROPATHIES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; LUNG; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; LYMPHEDEMA; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 69249205574     PISSN: 10534296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semradonc.2009.05.007     Document Type: Review

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