Lateral rectal shielding reduces late rectal morbidity following high dose three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy for clinically localized prostate cancer: Further evidence for a significant dose effect

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 251-257

  Lee, W Robert ^a   Hanks, Gerald E ^b   Hanlon, Alexandra L ^b   Schultheiss, Timothy E ^b   Hunt, Margie A ^b  

^a FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Prostate cancer; Radiotherapy; Rectal damage; Three dimensional conformal radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIOTHERAPY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION SHIELD; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RECTAL DISEASES; RECTUM;

EID: 0029941575     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0360-3016(96)00064-8     Document Type: Article

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