Ultrashort courses of adjuvant breast radiotherapy: Wave of the future or a fool's errand?

Cancer

Volumn 118, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1962-1970

  Khan, Atif J ^a   Dale, Roger G ^b   Arthur, Douglas W ^c   Haffty, Bruce G ^a   Todor, Dorin A ^c   Vicini, Frank A ^d  

^a RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATED PARTIAL BREAST IRRADIATION; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; INTRAOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY WITH ELECTRON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIOBIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DOSE FRACTIONATION; ELECTRONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT;

EID: 84859642460     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.26457     Document Type: Review

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