Gastrointestinal toxicity and its relation to dose distributions in the anorectal region of prostate cancer patients treated with radiotherapy

To study the correlations between the dose distributions in the anorectal region and late GI symptoms in patients treated for localized prostate carcinoma. Data from a randomized study were analyzed. In this trial, patients were treated with either rectangular or conformal fields with a dose of 66 G...

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