Current clinical coverage of Radiation Therapy Oncology Group-defined target volumes for postmastectomy radiation therapy

Practical Radiation Oncology

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 201-209

  Fontanilla, Hiral P ^a   Woodward, Wendy A ^a   Lindberg, Mary E ^a   Kanke, James E ^a   Arora, Gurpreet ^a   Durbin, Rosalind R ^a   Yu, Tse Kuan ^a   Zhang, Lifei ^a   Sharp, Hadley J ^a   Strom, Eric A ^a   Salehpour, Mohammad ^a   White, Julia ^b   Buchholz, Thomas A ^a   Dong, Lei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ANATOMIC LANDMARK; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 84862639582     PISSN: 18798500     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prro.2011.10.001     Document Type: Article

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