Quality of life and cosmesis after breast cancer: Whole breast radiotherapy vs partial breast high-dose-rate brachytherapy

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Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 161-167

  Perrucci, Elisabetta ^a   Lancellotta, Valentina ^a   Bini, Vittorio ^b   Falcinelli, Lorenzo ^a   Farneti, Alessia ^a   Margaritelli, Manuela ^a   Capezzali, Giorgia ^a   Palumbo, Isabella ^a   Aristei, Cynthia ^a  

^a SANTA MARIA DELLA MISERICORDIA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cosmesis; Partial breast irradiation; Quality of life; Whole breast irradiation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BODY IMAGE; BRACHYTHERAPY; BRACHYTHERAPY DEVICE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; FEAR; HUMAN; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIOTHERAPY EQUIPMENT; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ADJUVANT THERAPY; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CANCER STAGING; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; SEGMENTAL MASTECTOMY; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADULT; AGED; BODY IMAGE; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84930592268     PISSN: 03008916     EISSN: 20382529     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5301/tj.5000233     Document Type: Article

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