A population-based study of the fractionation of postlumpectomy breast radiation therapy

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 51-57

  Ashworth, Allison ^a,b   Kong, Weidong ^a   Whelan, Timothy ^c   Mackillop, William J ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Cancer Center of Southeastern Ontario   (Canada)

^c JURAVINSKI CANCER CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST RADIATION THERAPY; CANCER REGISTRIES; CLINICAL ONCOLOGY; COHORT STUDIES; ELECTRONIC TREATMENT; FRACTIONATION SCHEDULES; METHODS AND MATERIALS; ONTARIO , CANADA;

DISEASES; PATIENT MONITORING;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANADA; CANCER INVASION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; POPULATION RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; MIDDLE AGED; ONTARIO; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REGISTRIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84876149237     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2012.12.015     Document Type: Article

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