Response to "Unacceptable cosmesis in a protocol investigating intensity-modulated radiotherapy with active breathing control for accelerated partial-breast irradiation" (Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2010;76:71-78) and "Toxicity of three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy for accelerated partial breast irradiation" Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2009;75:1290-1296)

Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2010 May 1;77(1):317; author reply 318. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.12.033.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Letter
  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Breast Neoplasms / radiotherapy*
  • Clinical Trials, Phase III as Topic
  • Dose Fractionation, Radiation
  • Esthetics
  • Female
  • Fibrosis / pathology
  • Humans
  • Radiation Injuries / pathology
  • Radiotherapy Dosage
  • Radiotherapy, Intensity-Modulated / adverse effects*
  • Radiotherapy, Intensity-Modulated / methods
  • Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
  • Respiration
  • Subcutaneous Fat / pathology
  • Subcutaneous Fat / radiation effects