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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 3.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2009 Sep 9;76(5):1305–1313. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.04.013

Table 6.

Incidence of noncompletion of RT by RT technique and type of surgery

Mastectomy Nonmastectomy
RT technique n % terminated early n % terminated early
Total patients who began RT* 505 6 151 5
A: Tangents
 A1: IMN <30 Gy 140 5 36 8
 A2: IMN ≥30 Gy 152 6 79 5
B: Separate IMN field 132 3 29 0
C: Chest wall electrons 56 14 0 —
Other/unknown 25 8 7 0

Abbreviations as in Tables 1 and 4.

*

Excludes patients with missing data on type of surgery and RT completion status.