A 10-year follow-up of treatment outcomes in patients with early stage breast cancer and clinically negative axillary nodes treated with tangential breast irradiation following sentinel lymph node dissection or axillary clearance

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 893-902

  Wernicke, A Gabriella ^a   Goodman, Robert L ^b   Turner, Bruce C ^c   Komarnicky, Lydia T ^d   Curran, Walter J ^e   Christos, Paul J ^a   Khan, Imraan ^f   Vandris, Katherine ^a   Parashar, Bhupesh ^a   Nori, Dattatreyudu ^a   Chao, K S Clifford ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b SAINT BARNABAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Axillary lymph node dissection; Breast cancer; Radiotherapy; Sentinel lymph node sampling; Tangential breast radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTANT METASTASIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHEDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; RADIATION DOSE; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AXILLA; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79151485527     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: 15737217     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10549-010-1167-6     Document Type: Article

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