Comparison of three-dimensional versus intensity-modulated radiotherapy techniques to treat breast and axillary level III and supraclavicular nodes in a prone versus supine position

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 74-81

  Sethi, Rajni A ^a   No, Hyun Soo ^a   Jozsef, Gabor ^a   Ko, Jane P ^a   Formenti, Silvia C ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Axillary lymph nodes; Breast cancer; Intensity modulated radiotherapy; Prone breast radiotherapy; Supraclavicular lymph nodes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BODY POSTURE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLAVICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPINE POSITION; SUPRACLAVICULAR LYMPH NODE; THREE FIELD THREE DIMENSIONAL CONFORMAL RADIOTHERAPY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC IRRADIATION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; PATIENT POSITIONING; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84455169635     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2011.09.008     Document Type: Article

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