Prone whole-breast irradiation using three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy in women undergoing breast conservation for early disease yields high rates of excellent to good cosmetic outcomes in patients with large and/or pendulous breasts

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 821-828

  Bergom, Carmen ^a   Kelly, Tracy ^a   Morrow, Natalya ^a   Wilson, J Frank ^a   Walker, Alonzo ^a   Xiang, Qun ^a   Ahn, Kwang Woo ^a   White, Julia ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Breast; Cosmesis; Prone; Radiation

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECT; BODY MASS INDEX; BREAST; BREAST CONSERVATION; COMMON TERMINOLOGY CRITERIA; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCAN; COSMESIS; HARVARD; HIGH RATE; PATIENT POPULATION; PLANNING GOAL; PLANNING TARGET VOLUMES; PROGNOSTIC INDICATORS; PRONE; PRONE POSITION; TARGET VOLUMES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL CONFORMAL RADIOTHERAPY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL CONFORMAL RADIOTHERAPY (3D-CRT); WHOLE-BREAST IRRADIATION;

CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DERMATITIS; HEALTH; HEAT RADIATION; IRRADIATION; RADIOTHERAPY; TOXICITY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY POSTURE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST FIBROSIS; BREAST MALFORMATION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SIZE; CANCER SURGERY; COMMON TERMINOLOGY CRITERIA FOR ADVERSE EFFECTS VERSION 3.0; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DESQUAMATION; DISTANT METASTASIS; ESTHETICS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HARVARD SCALE; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTALGIA; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DERMATITIS; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION INJURY; SKIN EXFOLIATION; SKIN INDURATION; TELANGIECTASIA; THREE DIMENSIONAL CONFORMAL RADIOTHERAPY; WHOLE BREAST IRRADIATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART; HUMANS; LUNG; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; ORGANS AT RISK; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRONE POSITION; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 84861649296     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2011.08.020     Document Type: Article

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