EP-1678: Practice Guidelines skin care advice for patients undergoing radical external beam megavoltage radiotherapy
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Skin care advice for patients undergoing radical external beam megavoltage radiotherapy
This clinical practice guideline is a set of evidence-based recommendations to assist radiographers, radiotherapy nurses, and the wider radiotherapy workforce, in advising patients how to care for their skin while undergoing a course of radical external beam radiotherapy (excluding proton therapy). It has been developed systematically using the best available evidence from research and expert o...
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عنوان ژورنال: Radiotherapy and Oncology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0167-8140
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-8140(15)41670-6