Accelerated partial-breast irradiation (APBI) - Ready for prime time?

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 185, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 653-655

  Wenz, Frederik ^a   Budach, Wilfried ^b   Dunst, Jürgen ^c   Feyer, Petra ^d   Haase, Wulf ^e   Harms, Wolfgang ^f   Sautter Bihl, Marie Luise ^g   Sedlmayer, Felix ^h   Souchon, Rainer ⁱ   Sauer, Rolf ^j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^d VIVANTES KLINIKUM NEUKÖLLN   (Germany)

^e Medical Department II   (Germany)

^f St Claraspital AG   (Switzerland)

^g Municipal Hospital   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^j UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

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Author keywords

Breast cancer; Breast conserving therapy; Partial breast irradiation; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATED PARTIAL BREAST IRRADIATION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RISK; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; OVERALL SURVIVAL; RECURRENCE RISK; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; RISK REDUCTION; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WHOLE BREAST RADIOTHERAPY;

BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RISK; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 70349767109     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: 1439099X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-009-8002-1     Document Type: Editorial

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