Rectal bleeding after conformal 3D treatment of prostate cancer: Time to occurrence, response to treatment and duration of morbidity

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 77-83

  Teshima, Teruki ^a,b   Hanks, Gerald E ^a   Hanlon, Alexandra L ^a   Peter, Ruth S ^a   Schultheiss, Timothy E ^a  

^a FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Conformal radiation therapy; Late rectal complication; Prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; HYDROCORTISONE ACETATE; MESALAZINE; OLSALAZINE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DOSE RESPONSE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RECTUM MUCOSA; TREATMENT PLANNING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMINOSALICYLIC ACIDS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MESALAMINE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RECTAL DISEASES; RECURRENCE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030870597     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(97)00301-5     Document Type: Article

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