Treatment of left sided breast cancer for a patient with funnel chest: Volumetric-modulated arc therapy vs. 3D-CRT and intensity-modulated radiotherapy

Medical Dosimetry

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-4

  Haertl, Petra M ^a   Pohl, Fabian ^a   Weidner, Karin ^a   Groeger, Christian ^a   Koelbl, Oliver ^a   Dobler, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Funnel chest; Pectus excavatum; VMAT

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOCETAXEL; EPIRUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; LETROZOLE; TRASTUZUMAB;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; DOSE RESPONSE; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATOR; FUNNEL CHEST; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MASTECTOMY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; PAGET NIPPLE DISEASE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOTHERAPY; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TREATMENT PLANNING; VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC THERAPY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FUNNEL CHEST; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84873158530     PISSN: 09583947     EISSN: 18734022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meddos.2012.04.003     Document Type: Article

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