Biological-effective versus conventional dose volume histograms correlated with late genitourinary and gastrointestinal toxicity after external beam radiotherapy for prostate cancer: A matched pair analysis

BMC Cancer

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Jani, Ashesh B ^a   Hand, Christopher M ^a   Pelizzari, Charles A ^a   Roeske, John C ^a   Krauz, Lani ^a   Vijayakumar, Srinivasan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological effective dose; Dose volume histogram; Prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

AGED; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; BLADDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOSIMETRY; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PREDICTION; PROSTATE CANCER; RECTUM; RISK REDUCTION; TREATMENT PLANNING; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; METHODOLOGY; PROSTATE TUMOR; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION RESPONSE;

AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MALE UROGENITAL DISEASES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RECTUM; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 3042838595     PISSN: 14712407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-3-16     Document Type: Article

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