Radiation exposure of the heart, lung and skin by radiation therapy for breast cancer: A dosimetric comparison between partial breast irradiation using multicatheter brachytherapy and whole breast teletherapy

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 189-194

  Lettmaier, Sebastian ^a   Kreppner, Stephan ^a   Lotter, Michael ^a   Walser, Marc ^b   Ott, Oliver J ^a   Fietkau, Rainer ^a   Strnad, Vratislav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^b Radiotherapy Centre   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dosimetry; Partial breast irradiation; Whole breast irradiation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; HEART; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG; PARTIAL BODY RADIATION; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SKIN; TELETHERAPY; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; LUNG; RADIOISOTOPE TELETHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SKIN;

EID: 80052293632     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2010.07.011     Document Type: Article

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