Node-positive left-sided breast cancer: Does VMAT improve treatment plan quality with respect to IMRT?

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 189, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 380-386

  Pasler, M ^a   Georg, D ^b,c   Bartelt, S ^a   Lutterbach, J ^a  

^a Lake Constance Radiation Oncology Center Singen   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Breast neoplasms; Intensity modulated radiotherapy; Lymph nodes; Volumetric modulated arc therapy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER THERAPY; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRON BEAM; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LYMPH NODE; ORGANS AT RISK; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PUBLICATION; RADIATION DOSE; THORAX WALL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC THERAPY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84877839830     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: 1439099X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-012-0281-2     Document Type: Article

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