Increased use of regional radiotherapy is associated with improved outcome in a population-based cohort of women with breast cancer with 1-3 positive nodes

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 301-306

  Wai, Elaine S ^a,b   Lesperance, Mary ^c   Speers, Caroline H ^a   Truong, Pauline T ^a,b   Jones, Stuart ^a   Tyldesley, Scott ^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

Breast cancer; Locoregional recurrence; Nodal disease; Radiotherapy; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER GRADING; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR VOLUME;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; BRITISH COLUMBIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78149362121     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2010.08.008     Document Type: Article

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