Determining which patients require irradiation of the supraclavicular nodal area after surgery for N1 breast cancer

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1135-1141

  Yu, Jeong Il ^a   Park, Won ^a   Huh, Seung Jae ^a   Choi, Doo Ho ^a   Lim, Young Hyuk ^a   Ahn, Jin Suk ^a   Yang, Jung Hyun ^a   Nam, Suk Jin ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Prognostic group; Supraclavicular recurrence

Indexed keywords

AXILLARY NODES; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CONSERVING SURGERY; LYMPHOVASCULAR INVASIONS; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSTIC FACTORS; PROGNOSTIC GROUP; RADIATION THERAPY; RECURRENCE-FREE SURVIVAL; SUPRACLAVICULAR RECURRENCE; UNIVARIATE;

CHEMOTHERAPY; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; PATIENT MONITORING; SURGERY;

RADIOTHERAPY;

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; METHOTREXATE; TAMOXIFEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; DISTANT METASTASIS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH VESSEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUPRACLAVICULAR RADIATION THERAPY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CARCINOMA, LOBULAR; CLAVICLE; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PATHOLOGY; SECONDARY; TIME; TREATMENT FAILURE; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CARCINOMA, LOBULAR; CLAVICLE; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC IRRADIATION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT FAILURE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77958464723     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.09.037     Document Type: Article

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