Comparative acute toxicity from whole breast irradiation using 3-week accelerated schedule with concomitant boost and the 6.5-week conventional schedule with sequential boost for early-stage breast cancer

Clinical Breast Cancer

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 57-62

  Chadha, Manjeet ^a   Vongtama, Dan ^b   Friedmann, Patricia ^c   Parris, Celina ^a   Boolbol, Susan K ^a   Woode, Rudolph ^a   Harrison, Louis B ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b St Teresa Comprehensive Cancer Center   (United States)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerated RT; Acute toxicity; Breast cancer; Whole breast irradiation

Indexed keywords

ACUTE TOXICITY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDEMA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTALGIA; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; SKIN TOXICITY;

EID: 84856060108     PISSN: 15268209     EISSN: 19380666     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clbc.2011.09.002     Document Type: Article

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