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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Tangential IMRT versus TomoTherapy with and without breath-hold in left-sided whole breast irradiation

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Pages 240-243 | Received 10 Jan 2015, Accepted 26 Apr 2015, Published online: 21 May 2015

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