Breast brachytherapy versus whole-breast irradiation: Reported differences may be statistically significant but clinically trivial

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 266-268

  Kuske, Robert R ^a   Young, S Stanley ^b  

^a Arizona Breast Cancer Specialists   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGISTRY; DECISION MAKING; DOSIMETRY; EDITORIAL; FAT NECROSIS; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; IONIZING RADIATION; LEARNING CURVE; MASTALGIA; MASTECTOMY; MEDICARE; MORBIDITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; WHOLE BREAST IRRADIATION;

BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, INTRADUCTAL, NONINFILTRATING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY; ORGAN SPARING TREATMENTS; PATIENT SELECTION;

EID: 84891865884     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2013.12.002     Document Type: Editorial

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