Late dermal effects of breast cancer radiotherapy
Abstract Radiotherapy is used in the treatment of breast cancer in order to reduce local recurrence rate. However, radiation is known to cause both acute and delayed side-effects on normal tissues. A common late complication of radiotherapy is fibrosis of skin and other organs. Fibrosis has been de...
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| Format: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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University of Oulu
2006
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| Online Access: | http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9514282760 http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:9514282760 |