Australian survey on current practices for breast radiotherapy

Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 736-742

  Dundas, Kylie L ^a,b,c   Pogson, Elise M ^a,b,c   Batumalai, Vikneswary ^b,d   Boxer, Miriam M ^b,d   Yap, Mei Ling ^b,c,d,e   Delaney, Geoff P ^b,c,d,e   Metcalfe, Peter ^a,b,c   Holloway, Lois ^a,b,c,d,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b Liverpool and Macarthur Cancer Therapy Centres and Ingham Institute   (Australia)

^c INGHAM INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

breast cancer; clinical practice; radiotherapy; survey

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HUMAN; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; MALE; PATIENT POSITIONING; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING SYSTEM; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION;

AUSTRALIA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRACTICE PATTERNS, PHYSICIANS'; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, IMAGE-GUIDED;

EID: 85027925449     PISSN: 17549477     EISSN: 17549485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1754-9485.12348     Document Type: Article

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