Radiation-related quality of life parameters after targeted intraoperative radiotherapy versus whole breast radiotherapy in patients with breast cancer: Results from the randomized phase III trial TARGIT-A

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Welzel, Grit ^a   Boch, Angela ^a   Sperk, Elena ^a   Hofmann, Frank ^a   Kraus Tiefenbacher, Uta ^a   Gerhardt, Axel ^a   Suetterlin, Marc ^a   Wenz, Frederik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Boost; Breast cancer; Quality of life; Targeted intraoperative radiotherapy; TARGIT A trial

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; EXTERNAL BEAM WHOLE BREAST RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; INTRAOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLINICAL TRIAL; MIDDLE AGED; PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL; RADIOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIOTHERAPY;

EID: 84871910592     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-8-9     Document Type: Article

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