Accelerated partial breast irradiation using external beam conformal radiation therapy: A review

Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hematology

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-20

  Njeh, Christopher F ^a   Saunders, Mark W ^a   Langton, Christian M ^b  

^a TEXAS ONCOLOGY   (United States)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Accelerated partial breast irradiation; Early stage breast cancer; External beam conformal radiation therapy; Fractionation; Lumpectomy; Radiation therapy; Target delineation; Whole breast radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

BODY POSTURE; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; EARLY CANCER; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG CANCER; LUNG FIBROSIS; MASTALGIA; MEDICAL ERROR; PARTIAL BODY RADIATION; PATIENT POSITIONING; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SELECTION; PROTON THERAPY; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION PNEUMONIA; RADIATION RESPONSE; REVIEW; SUPINE POSITION; TOMOTHERAPY;

BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 83755165061     PISSN: 10408428     EISSN: 18790461     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.critrevonc.2011.01.011     Document Type: Review

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