Differences between current and historical breast cancer axillary lymph node irradiation based on arm position: Implications for radiation oncologists

American Journal of Clinical Oncology: Cancer Clinical Trials

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 381-386

  Saito, Anneyuko I ^a   Vargas, Carlos ^a   Morris, Christopher G ^a   Lightsey, Judith ^a   Mendenhall, Nancy P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arm positions; Axillary lymph nodes; Breast cancer; Radiation; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE IRRADIATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT POSITIONING; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

AGED; ARM; AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LYMPH NODES; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSTURE; RADIATION ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 69349099231     PISSN: 02773732     EISSN: 1537453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/COC.0b013e318191718d     Document Type: Article

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