Is α/β for breast cancer really low?

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 282-288

  Qi, X Sharon ^a,b   White, Julia ^b   Li, X Allen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

ratio; Breast cancer; Hypofractionation

Indexed keywords

ALPHA RADIATION; ARTICLE; BETA RADIATION; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLONOGENESIS; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 80051785836     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2011.01.010     Document Type: Article

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