Chest Wall Radiotherapy: Middle Ground for Treatment of Patients With One to Three Positive Lymph Nodes After Mastectomy

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1297-1303

  MacDonald, Shannon M ^a   Abi Raad, Rita F ^a   Alm El Din, Mohamed A ^a,b   Niemierko, Andrzej ^a   Kobayashi, Wendy ^a   McGrath, John J ^a   Goldberg, Saveli I ^a   Powell, Simon ^a   Smith, Barbara ^a   Taghian, Alphonse G ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b TANTA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT RADIOTHERAPY; BREAST CANCER; CHEST WALL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; LOCOREGIONAL RECURRENCE; MASSACHUSETTS; OVERALL SURVIVAL; OVERALL SURVIVAL RATES; POSITIVE LYMPH NODES; POSTMASTECTOMY RADIOTHERAPY; PROGNOSTIC FACTORS;

BODY FLUIDS; DISEASE CONTROL; PATIENT MONITORING;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; THORAX WALL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC IRRADIATION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MASTECTOMY; MASTECTOMY, MODIFIED RADICAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACIC WALL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 71649103436     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.01.007     Document Type: Article

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