Patterns of use and short-term complications of breast brachytherapy in the national Medicare population from 2008-2009

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 30, Issue 35, 2012, Pages 4302-4307

  Presley, Carolyn J ^a   Soulos, Pamela R ^a   Herrin, Jeph ^a,c   Roberts, Kenneth B ^a   Yu, James B ^a   Killelea, Brigid ^a   Lesnikoski, Beth Ann ^b   Long, Jessica B ^a   Gross, Cary P ^a  

^a YALE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Health Research and Educational Trust   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE DISEASE; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; DEEP TISSUE COMPLICATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION INJURY; SKIN DISEASE; WHOLE BREAST IRRADIATION; WOUND COMPLICATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MEDICARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870730168     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: 15277755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2012.43.5297     Document Type: Article

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