Assessing correlations between the spatial distribution of the dose to the rectal wall and late rectal toxicity after prostate radiotherapy: An analysis of data from the MRC RT01 trial (ISRCTN 47772397)

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 6535-6548

  Buettner, Florian ^a   Gulliford, Sarah L ^a   Webb, Steve ^a   Sydes, Matthew R ^b   Dearnaley, David P ^a   Partridge, Mike ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC CLINICAL TRIALS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF DATA; CENTRE OF MASS; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; DOSE LEVELS; DOSE-VOLUME HISTOGRAMS; PROSTATE CANCERS; PROSTATE RADIOTHERAPY; RANK STATISTICS; RECTAL TOXICITY; RECTAL WALL; SHAPE BASED; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MAP;

RADIOTHERAPY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

TOXICITY;

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; LOOSE FECES; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCTITIS; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECTUM; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE;

ANAL CANAL; COHORT STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RECTUM; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70449124284     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/21/006     Document Type: Article

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