Mixed modality treatment planning of accelerated partial breast irradiation: To improve complex dosimetry cases

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  El Nemr, Mohamed ^a,b   Heymann, Steve ^a   Verstraet, Rodolfe ^a   Biron, Bruno ^a   Azoury, Fares ^a   Marsiglia, Hugo ^a,c,d   Bourgier, Céline ^a  

^a INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

^b ALEXANDRIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^d Grupo IMO Instituto Madrileño de Oncología   (Spain)

Author keywords

3d conformal accelerated partial breast irradiation; Dosimetric optimization

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATED PARTIAL BREAST IRRADIATION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON BEAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; PHOTON THERAPY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; TREATMENT PLANNING; ADJUVANT THERAPY; BREAST TUMOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL;

EID: 80755143017     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-6-154     Document Type: Article

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