Planning comparison of intensity modulated radiation therapy delivered with 2 tangential fields versus 3-dimensional conformal radiotherapy for cardiac sparing in women with left-sided breast cancer

Practical Radiation Oncology

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 248-256

  Taunk, Neil K ^a   Prosnitz, Robert G ^b  

^a ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY CANCER; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HEART PROTECTION; HEART VOLUME; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MORTALITY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PATIENT SELECTION; PLANNING TARGET VOLUME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 84866509813     PISSN: 18798500     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prro.2011.11.004     Document Type: Article

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