Postmastectomy electron-beam chest-wall irradiation in women with breast cancer

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1190-1194

  Gez, Eliahu ^a   Ashaf, Nurit ^a   Bar Deroma, Rachel ^a   Rosenblatt, Edward ^a   Kuten, Abraham ^a  

^a RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Electron beam chest wall irradiation; Postmastectomy radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

CHEST-WALL IRRADIATION; LYMPH NODES; PHOTON BEAMS; POSTMASTECTOMY;

DISEASE CONTROL; ELECTRON BEAMS; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY; TOXICITY; TUMORS;

PATIENT MONITORING;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLA; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARDIOTOXICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON BEAM; ENERGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; ELECTRONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC IRRADIATION; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACIC WALL;

EID: 7444261429     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2004.05.036     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. T.A. Buchholz, E.A. Strom, G.H. Perkins Controversies regarding the use of radiation after mastectomy in breast cancer The Oncologist 7 2002 539 546
2. M. Overgaard, P.S. Hansen, J. Overgaard Postoperative radiotherapy in high-risk premenopausal women with breast cancer who receive adjuvant chemotherapy N Engl J Med 337 1997 949 955
3. M. Overgaard, M.B. Jensen, J. Overgaard Postoperative radiotherapy in high-risk postmenopausal breast-cancer patients given adjuvant tamoxifen Danish Breast Cancer Cooperative Group DBCG 82c randomised trial Lancet 353 1999 1641 1648
4. J. Ragaz, S.M. Jackson, N. Le Adjuvant radiotherapy and chemotherapy in node-positive premenopausal women with breast cancer N Engl J Med 337 1997 956 962
5. J. Cuzick, H. Stewart, R. Peto Overview of randomized trials of postoperative adjuvant radiotherapy in breast cancer Cancer Treat Rep 71 1987 15 29
6. Early Breast Cancer Trialists' Collaborative Group Favourable and unfavourable effects on long-term survival of radiotherapy for early breast cancer An overview of the randomised trials Lancet 355 2000 1757 1770
7. J. Cuzick, H. Stewart, L. Rutqvist Cause-specific mortality in long-term survivors of breast cancer who participated in trials of radiotherapy J Clin Oncol 12 1994 447 453
8. J. Van de Steene, G. Stoete, G. Storme Adjuvant radiotherapy for breast cancer significant improves overall survival The missing link Radiother Oncol 55 2000 263 272
9. M.E. Taylor, C.A. Perez, S. Levitt Breast Locally advanced (T3 and T4), inflammatory, and recurrent tumorsIn C.A. Perez L.W. Brady Principles and practice of radiation oncology 3rd ed 1977 Lippincott-Raven Publishers Philadelphia p. 1415 1448
10. D.K. Gaffney, J. Prows, D.D. Leavitt Electron arc irradiation of the postmastectomy chest wall Clinical results Radiother Oncol 42 1997 17 24
11. D.K. Gaffney, D.D. Leavitt, A. Tsodikov Electron arc irradiation of the postmastectomy chest wall with CT treatment planning 20-year experience Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 51 2001 994 991001
12. B. Magee, G.G. Ribeiro, P. Williams, R. Swindell Use of an electron beam for post-mastectomy radiotherapy 5-year follow-up of 500 cases Clin Oncol 3 1991 310 314
13. T. Hehr, W. Budach, I. Durst Postmastectomy electron-beam-rotation irradiation in locally advanced breast cancer prognostic factors of locoregional tumor control Strahlenther Onkol 178 2002 624 632
14. T. Hehr, W. Budach, F. Paulsen Evaluation of predictive factors for local tumour control after electron-beam-rotation irradiation of the chest wall in locally advanced breast cancer Radiother Oncol 50 1999 283 289
15. S.J. Feigenberg, N.P. Mendenhall, R.K. Benda Postmastectomy radiotherapy Patterns of recurrence and long-term disease control using electrons Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 56 2003 716 725
16. J.O. Irwin Test of significance for differences between percentages based on small numbers Metron 12 1935 83 94
17. H. Scheffe The analysis of variance 1995 John Wiley Sons New York
18. E.L. Kaplan, P. Meier Nonparametric estimation from incomplete observations J Am Stat Assoc 53 1958 457 481
19. N. Mantel Evaluation of survival data and two new rank order statistics arising in its consideration Cancer Chemother Rep 50 1966 163 170
20. A. Recht, S.B. Edge, L.J. Solin Postmastectomy radiotherapy Guidelines of the American Society of Clinical Oncology J Clin Oncol 19 2001 1539 1569
21. M. Uematsu, B.A. Bornstein, J.R. Harris Long term results of post-operative radiation therapy following mastectomy with or without chemotherapy in stage 13 breast cancer Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 25 1993 765 770
22. B. Fisher, J.H. Jeong, S. Anderson Twenty-five-year follow-up of randomized trial comparing radical mastectomy, total mastectomy and total mastectomy followed by irradiation N Engl J Med 347 2002 567 575