Rectum-spacer related acute toxicity – endoscopy results of 403 prostate cancer patients after implantation of gel or balloon spacers

Rectum-spacer related acute toxicity – endoscopy results of 403 prostate cancer patients after implantation of gel or balloon spacers

Abstract Background Rectal spacers are used to limit dose to the anterior rectal wall in high dose external beam radiation therapy of the prostate and have been shown to reduce radiation induced toxicity. Here we report the complication rate and toxicity of the implantation procedure in a large coho...

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Main Authors: Andreas Schörghofer, Martin Drerup, Thomas Kunit, Lukas Lusuardi, Josef Holzinger, Josef Karner, Michael Groher, Christoph Zoubek, Rosemarie Forstner, Felix Sedlmayer, Frank Wolf
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-03-01
Series:Radiation Oncology
Subjects:
Prostate
Spacer
Rectum toxicity
External beam radiation therapy
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13014-019-1248-6

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