Radiation field design in the ACOSOG Z0011 (Alliance) trial

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 32, Issue 32, 2014, Pages 3600-3606

  Jagsi, Reshma ^a   Chadha, Manjeet ^b   Moni, Janaki ^a,c   Ballman, Karla ^a   Laurie, Fran ^a   Buchholz, Thomas A ^d   Giuliano, Armando ^e   Haffty, Bruce G ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^e CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMERUS HEAD; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; RADIATION FIELD; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; TUMOR VOLUME; AGED; AXILLA; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RADIATION RESPONSE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SEGMENTAL MASTECTOMY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AXILLA; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RADIOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84911472904     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: 15277755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2014.56.5838     Document Type: Article

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