The benefits of including clinical factors in rectal normal tissue complication probability modeling after radiotherapy for prostate cancer

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1233-1242

  Defraene, Gilles ^a   Van Den Bergh, Laura ^a   Al Mamgani, Abrahim ^b   Haustermans, Karin ^a   Heemsbergen, Wilma ^c   Van Den Heuvel, Frank ^a   Lebesque, Joos V ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

3D conformal radiotherapy; Gastrointestinal toxicity; NTCP; Predisposing clinical factors; Prostate radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

3D-CONFORMAL RADIOTHERAPY; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; NTCP; PREDISPOSING CLINICAL FACTORS; PROSTATE RADIOTHERAPY;

CURVE FITTING; DISEASES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; RADIOTHERAPY; TISSUE; TOXICITY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ADULT; AGED; ANORECTAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DOSIMETRY; FECES INCONTINENCE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROSTATE ADENOCARCINOMA; PROSTATE CANCER; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; SCORING SYSTEM;

ABDOMEN; AGED; AREA UNDER CURVE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROBABILITY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RECTUM; ROC CURVE;

EID: 84856382108     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2011.03.056     Document Type: Article

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