Does a three-field electron/minitangent photon technique offer dosimetric advantages to a multifield, photon-only technique for accelerated partial breast irradiation?

American Journal of Clinical Oncology: Cancer Clinical Trials

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 336-340

  Mydin, Aminudin R ^a,b   Gaffney, Helene ^a   Bergman, Alanah ^a   McDonald, Rachel ^a   Beckham, Wayne A ^c   Truong, Pauline T ^a,b   Olivotto, Ivo A ^a,b  

^a BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accelerated partial breast irradiation; Conformal radiation; External beam radiation; Treatment planning

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATED PARTIAL BREAST IRRADIATION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON BEAM; ELECTRON RADIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; PHOTON THERAPY; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT PLANNING; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; PHOTON; RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77956636279     PISSN: 02773732     EISSN: 1537453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/COC.0b013e3181b0c370     Document Type: Article

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