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Helical tomotherapy and volumetric modulated arc therapy: New therapeutic arms in the breast cancer radiotherapy
Olivier Lauche, Youlia M Kirova, Pascal Fenoglietto, Emilie Costa, Claire Lemanski, Celine Bourgier, Olivier Riou, David Tiberi, Francois Campana, Alain Fourquet, David Azria
Olivier Lauche, Youlia M Kirova, Emilie Costa, Francois Campana, Alain Fourquet, Department of Radiation Oncology, Institut Curie, 75005 Paris, France
Pascal Fenoglietto, Claire Lemanski, Celine Bourgier, Olivier Riou, David Azria, Departement of Radiation Oncology, Institut du Cancer de Montpellier, 34298 Montpellier cedex 5, France
David Tiberi, Department of Radiation Oncology, Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal Hôpital Notre Dame, Montreal H2L 4M1, Canada
Author contributions: Lauche O and Kirova YM participated in the conception, acquisition, analysis, interpretation of the data and drafted the initial manuscript; Kirova YM and Azria D were the guarantor and designed the study; Fenoglietto P participated in the analysis and the interpretation of the data; Costa E, Lemanski C, Bourgier C, Riou O and Fourquet A revised the article critically for important intellectual content; Language revision was realized by Tiberi D from Canada (native speaker); Campana F participated in the treatment of the patients and revised the article.
Institutional review board statement: The study was reviewed and approved by the Breast Cancer Groups of Curie Institute and Montpellier Cancer Institute.
Informed consent statement: Not applicable given the retrospective design of our study.
Conflict-of-interest statement: There are no conflicts of interest to report.
Data sharing statement: No additional data are available.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Correspondence to: Youlia M Kirova, MD, Chief of breast cancer research and treatment in the Department of Radiation Oncology, Institut Curie, 26, rue d’Ulm, 75005 Paris, France. youlia.kirova@curie.fr
Telephone: +33-1-44324193 Fax: +33-1-44324616
Received: February 23, 2016
Peer-review started: February 25, 2016
First decision: April 15, 2016
Revised: May 12, 2016
Accepted: June 27, 2016
Article in press: June 29, 2016
Published online: August 28, 2016