A phase 2 trial of once-weekly hypofractionated breast irradiation: First report of acute toxicity, feasibility, and patient satisfaction

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Dragun, Anthony E ^a   Quillo, Amy R ^a   Riley, Elizabeth C ^a   Roberts, Teresa L ^a   Hunter, Allison M ^a   Rai, Shesh N ^a   Callender, Glenda G ^a   Jain, Dharamvir ^a   McMasters, Kelly M ^a   Spanos, William J ^a  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE TOXICITY; ADVERSE EVENTS; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CONSERVING SURGERY; BREAST IRRADIATION; BREAST RADIATION THERAPY; COMMON TERMINOLOGY CRITERIA; COSMESIS; CYTOTOXIC; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POST TREATMENT; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION-INDUCED; WHOLE-BREAST IRRADIATION;

CHEMOTHERAPY; DISEASES; HEALTH; IRRADIATION; RADIOTHERAPY; SURGERY; TOXICITY;

RADIATION;

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CYTOTOXIC AGENT; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST EDEMA; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER STAGING; CELLULITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATITIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSIMETRY; EDEMA; FATIGUE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPOFRACTIONATED BREAST IRRADIATION; IRRADIATION; MASTALGIA; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PAIN; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; SELF REPORT; SKIN DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIODERMATITIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84873299801     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2012.10.021     Document Type: Article

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