Initial outcomes analysis for large multicenter integrated cancer network implementation of intensity modulated radiation therapy for breast cancer

Breast Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 468-474

  Bhatnagar, Ajay K ^a   Beriwal, Sushil ^a,c   Heron, Dwight E ^a   Flickinger, John C ^a   Deutsch, Melvin ^a   Huq, M Saiful ^a   Sontag, Marc ^b   Shogan, Jeffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b D3 Radiation Planning   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Cancer network; Clinical outcome; IMRT; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CONSERVING SURGERY; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER CENTER; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; HEART VOLUME; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LUNG VOLUME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCRIPTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SKIN EXFOLIATION; SKIN TOXICITY; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; SKIN;

EID: 70449659661     PISSN: 1075122X     EISSN: 15244741     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4741.2009.00761.x     Document Type: Article

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