Selection of patients for breast conserving surgery
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Predictive parameters for selection of electronic tissue compensation radiotherapy in early-stage breast cancer patients after breast-conserving surgery
Electronic tissue compensation (eComp) is an external beam planning technique allowing user to manually generate dynamic beam fluence to produce more uniform or modulated dose distribution. In this study, we compared the effectiveness between conventional three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy (3DCRT) and eComp for whole breast irradiation. 3DCRT and eComp planning techniques were used to gen...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cancer
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0008-543X,1097-0142
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.2820741323