A prospective longitudinal clinical trial evaluating quality of life after breast-conserving surgery and high-dose-rate interstitial brachytherapy for early-stage breast cancer

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1043-1050

  Garsa, Adam A ^a   Ferraro, Daniel J ^a   Dewees, Todd A ^a   Deshields, Teresa L ^a   Margenthaler, Julie A ^a   Cyr, Amy E ^a   Naughton, Michael ^a   Aft, Rebecca ^a,b   Gillanders, William E ^a   Eberlein, Timothy ^a   Matesa, Melissa A ^a   Ochoa, Laura L ^a   Zoberi, Imran ^a  

^a BARNES JEWISH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATED PARTIAL BREAST IRRADIATION; AFTER-TREATMENT; BREAST CONSERVING SURGERY; EARLY-STAGE BREAST CANCER; FUTURE PERSPECTIVES; INTERSTITIAL BRACHYTHERAPY; METHODS AND MATERIALS; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EXPERIMENTS; SURGERY; SURVEYS;

DISEASES;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; EARLY CANCER; EMOTIONALITY; FAT NECROSIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIATION DOSE; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL STATUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; FOLLOW UP; HOPE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; SEGMENTAL MASTECTOMY; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FAT NECROSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOPE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84888298193     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2013.09.009     Document Type: Article

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