Use of intensity modulated radiation therapy to reduce acute and chronic toxicities of breast cancer patients treated with traditional and accelerated whole breast irradiation

Practical Radiation Oncology

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Shah, Chirag ^a   Wobb, Jessica ^a   Grills, Inga ^a   Wallace, Michelle ^a   Mitchell, Christina ^a   Vicini, Frank A ^b  

^a OAKLAND UNIVERSITY WILLIAM BEAUMONT SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b 21ST CENTURY ONCOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; EDEMA; FAT NECROSIS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; HYPOPIGMENTATION; INCIDENCE; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DERMATITIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION INJURY; SEROMA; SKIN INDURATION; TELANGIECTASIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WHOLE BREAST IRRADIATION;

EID: 84866503947     PISSN: 18798500     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prro.2012.01.008     Document Type: Article

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