Feasibility of Postmastectomy Treatment With Helical TomoTherapy

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 836-842

  Ashenafi, Michael ^a   Boyd, Robert A ^a,b   Lee, Tae K ^b   Lo, Kenneth K ^b   Gibbons, John P ^a,b   Rosen, Isaac I ^a,b   Fontenot, Jonas D ^a,b   Hogstrom, Kenneth R ^a,b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Electron chest wall irradiation; Helical tomotherapy; Mixed beam therapy; Postmastectomy radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

BEAM THERAPY; CHEST WALL; HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY; POSTMASTECTOMY RADIATION THERAPIES;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; HISTOLOGY; IRRADIATION; PROBABILITY; RADIATION; TUMORS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CONTROL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; LUNG; MASTECTOMY; METASTASIS; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION PNEUMONIA; THORAX WALL; TISSUE INJURY; TOMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; LUNG; LYMPH NODES; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; THORACIC WALL;

EID: 77952556726     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.06.027     Document Type: Article

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