Treatment completion rates and toxicity of 5 fractions of adjuvant radiotherapy over one week in elderly breast cancer patients treated with lumpectomy

BACKGROUND: Elderly patients are usually frail and cannot attend a prolonged radiotherapy course. Many of them undergo mastectomy to avoid adjuvant radiotherapy thinking that they are not going to complete at least 15 fractions. Many studies have suggested hypofractionated radiotherapy in 5 days. We...

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Autores principales: Flores Sánchez, Álvaro, Contreras Martínez, Jorge, Priego Ortiz, Remedios
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: AME Publishing Company 2020
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Original Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8799003/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35117942
http://dx.doi.org/10.21037/tcr.2019.12.26

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8799003/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35117942
http://dx.doi.org/10.21037/tcr.2019.12.26

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