Acute genitourinary toxicity after high-dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy combined with hypofractionated external-beam radiation therapy for localized prostate cancer: Correlation between the urethral dose in HDR brachytherapy and the severity of acute genitourinary toxicity

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 463-471

  Akimoto, Tetsuo ^a   Ito, Kazuto ^a   Saitoh, Jun Ichi ^a   Noda, Shin Ei ^a   Harashima, Koichi ^a   Sakurai, Hideyuki ^a   Nakayama, Yuko ^a   Yamamoto, Takumi ^a   Suzuki, Kazuhiro ^a   Nakano, Takashi ^a   Niibe, Hideo ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

External beam radiation therapy; High dose rate brachytherapy; Prostate cancer; Transrectal ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; IRIDIUM; PATIENT TREATMENT; TOXICITY; TUMORS;

EXTERNAL-BEAM RADIATION THERAPY; HIGH-DOSE RATE BRACHYTHERAPY; PROSTATE CANCER; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ANDROGEN; IRIDIUM 192;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSURIA; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FOLLOW UP; GLEASON SCORE; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOCTURIA; PELVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION RESPONSE; SEMINAL VESICLE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; URETHRA; URINARY DYSFUNCTION; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRACHYTHERAPY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; IRIDIUM RADIOISOTOPES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION INJURIES; URETHRA; URINATION DISORDERS;

EID: 24944534498     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2004.11.041     Document Type: Article

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