Intraoperative radiotherapy versus external radiotherapy for early breast cancer (ELIOT): A randomised controlled equivalence trial

The Lancet Oncology

Volumn 14, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 1269-1277

  Veronesi, Umberto ^a   Orecchia, Roberto ^a,b   Maisonneuve, Patrick ^a   Viale, Giuseppe ^a,b   Rotmensz, Nicole ^a   Sangalli, Claudia ^a   Luini, Alberto ^a   Veronesi, Paolo ^a,b   Galimberti, Viviana ^a   Zurrida, Stefano ^a,b   Leonardi, Maria Cristina ^a   Lazzari, Roberta ^a   Cattani, Federica ^a   Gentilini, Oreste ^a   Intra, Mattia ^a   Caldarella, Pietro ^a   Ballardini, Bettina ^a  

^a EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRY SKIN; EARLY CANCER; ERYTHEMA; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERPIGMENTATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION INJURY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SKIN INJURY; SKIN NECROSIS; SKIN TOXICITY; SURVIVAL TIME; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CARCINOMA, LOBULAR; DOSE FRACTIONATION; ELECTRONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; ITALY; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM GRADING; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84888134506     PISSN: 14702045     EISSN: 14745488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1470-2045(13)70497-2     Document Type: Article

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