Ahmed Salih Alshewered

Publications

• Research Article   
  Dermatological sequel of adjuvant breast cancer radiotherapy in Iraqi women
  Author(s): Alaa Mobder Mohammed Alrubai, Hadeel Majid Ali Al-Jassani, Shaymaa Mohammed Radhi Alsaymaree and Ahmed Salih Alshewered*
  
  Adjuvant breast cancer radiotherapy raises the risk of skin toxicities. We aimed to identify and determined patients and treatment characteristics that may increase this risk to help individualize and health worker in radiation field to prevention and management of radiation-induced these toxicities. We enrolled 157 women with breast cancer who received adjuvant radiation treatment based upon age, employments, educational level, marital status, parity, menopause status, weight, height, BMI, grade, types of surgery, chemotherapy, radiation fractionation, total dose, site of radiation, energy of accelerator used, skin color types, duration of skin toxicities manifestation, side effect of radiation, smoking, diabetes, hypertension, and coronary heart diseases. Univariate logistic regression was used to compare each factor across the skin toxicities groups. Significant risk factors were a.. Read More»
  

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