Search for dissertations about: "Radiation therapy in breast cancer"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 34 swedish dissertations containing the words Radiation therapy in breast cancer.
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16. Cardiac and pulmonary side-effects of radiotherapy in early breast cancer
Abstract : The purpose of this thesis was to study early and late side-effects to lung and heart in adjuvant locoregionalradiation therapy (LRRT) of early breast cancer (BC). Papers I-III were intervention studies aiming to reduce symptomatic/ radiological pneumonitis and functional changes after LRRT by applyingthe ipsilateral lung dose volume constraint V20 ≤ 30 %. READ MORE
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17. Nursing interventions in radiation therapy : studies on women with breast cancer
Abstract : The general aim of this thesis was to acquire knowledge to be used to improve the care of cancer patients during and after radiation therapy, in particular for women with breast cancer. The specific objectives were first to assess nursing care problems of importance for the development of nursing care in a radiation therapy department and secondly to evaluate possible effects on side-effects, coping ability, and subjective distress of a nursing intervention based on Orem's self-care theory. READ MORE
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18. Radiation burden from modern radiation therapy techniques including proton therapy for breast cancer treatment - clinical implications
Abstract : The purpose of this thesis was to study the clinical implications of modern radiotherapy techniques for breast cancer treatment. This was investigated in several individual studies. READ MORE
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19. Cell cycle alterations and 11q13 amplification in breast cancer : prediction of adjuvant treatment response
Abstract : The growth and development of the breast is to a large extent regulated by oestrogens through the oestrogen receptor (ER). Activation of the ERα triggers transcription of genes that are important for cell proliferation and stimulates entry into the G1 phase of the cell cycle. READ MORE
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20. DNA repair pathways and the effect of radiotherapy in breast cancer
Abstract : A large proportion of breast cancer patients are treated with radiotherapy. Ionising radiation induces different DNA damages, of which double-strand breaks are the most severe. They are mainly repaired by homologous recombination or non-homologous end-joining. Different protein complexes have central roles in these repair processes. READ MORE