Radiation therapy for breast cancer: Buyer beware

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 453-454

  Witteles, Ronald M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

breast cancer; cardiac disease; cardiovascular diseases; causes of death; long term mortality; long term risk; radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ANTHRACYCLINE; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR ANTIBODY;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARDIOTOXICITY; EDITORIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MASTECTOMY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 78751610477     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2010.08.637     Document Type: Editorial

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