Comparison of rectal volume definition techniques and their influence on rectal toxicity in patients with prostate cancer treated with 3D conformal radiotherapy: A dose-volume analysis

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 4, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Onal, Cem ^a   Topkan, Erkan ^a   Efe, Esma ^a   Yavuz, Melek ^a   Sonmez, Serhat ^a   Yavuz, Aydin ^a  

^a BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CAUTERIZATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RECTUM DISEASE; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RECTUM TOXICITY; SEMINAL VESICLE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING; ADENOCARCINOMA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PROSTATE TUMOR; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOTHERAPY; RECTUM;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RECTUM;

EID: 66349126819     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-4-14     Document Type: Article

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