Post mastectomy linac IMRT irradiation of chest wall and regional nodes: Dosimetry data and acute toxicities

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Ma, Jinli ^a   Li, Jiongyan ^a   Xie, Jiang ^a   Chen, Jian ^a   Zhu, Chuanying ^a   Cai, Gang ^a   Zhang, Zhen ^a   Guo, Xiaomao ^a   Chen, Jiayi ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY SHANGHAI CANCER CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Acute toxicity; Breast cancer; Dosimetry; Intensity modulation; Modified radical mastectomy

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CLAVICLE; DESQUAMATION; DOSIMETRY; ESOPHAGUS; FOLLOW UP; HEART; HUMAN; HUMERUS HEAD; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LUNG; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RADIATION DERMATITIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SPINAL CORD; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; THORACIC WALL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84875850570     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-8-81     Document Type: Article

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