Delineation of target volumes and organs at risk in adjuvant radiotherapy of early breast cancer: National guidelines and contouring atlas by the Danish Breast Cancer Cooperative Group

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 703-710

  Nielsen, Mette H ^a   Berg, Martin ^b   Pedersen, Anders N ^c   Andersen, Karen ^d   Glavicic, Vladimir ^e   Jakobsen, Erik H ^b   Jensen, Ingelise ^f   Josipovic, Mirjana ^c   Lorenzen, Ebbe L ^a   Nielsen, Hanne M ^g   Stenbygaard, Lars ^f   Thomsen, Mette S ^g   Vallentin, Susanne ^d   Zimmermann, Sune ^a   Offersen, Birgitte V ^g  

^a ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b LILLEBAELT HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^d GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^e NAESTVED HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^f AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^g AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSENSUS; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MASTECTOMY; ORGANS AT RISK; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; TREATMENT PLANNING; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; CANCER PATIENT; EARLY CANCER; RADIATION ONCOLOGIST; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING SYSTEM; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ATLASES AS TOPIC; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DENMARK; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; ORGANS AT RISK; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL;

EID: 84875947753     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: 1651226X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/0284186X.2013.765064     Document Type: Article

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