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Pavel Kundrát1, Julia Remmele2, Hannes Rennau3

  • 1Institute of Radiation Protection, Department of Radiation Sciences, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany.

Radiotherapy and Oncology : Journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
|September 23, 2018
PubMed
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Anatomic parametersBreast-cancer radiotherapyContralateral breastIndividual variability

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