Effects of a dietary intervention on gastrointestinal symptoms after prostate cancer radiotherapy: Long-term results from a randomized controlled trial

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 240-247

  Pettersson, Anna ^a   Nygren, Peter ^a   Persson, Christina ^a   Berglund, Anders ^b   Turesson, Ingela ^a   Johansson, Birgitta ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Dietary intervention; Long term gastrointestinal symptoms; Prostate cancer; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

LACTOSE; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOATING; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAIRY PRODUCT; DIARRHEA; DIET; DIET RESTRICTION; DIETARY FIBER; DIETARY INTAKE; DIETARY INTERVENTION; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FERMENTATION; FLATULENCE; FOOD FREQUENCY QUESTIONNAIRE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GLEASON SCORE; GRAIN; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTON THERAPY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION ENTEROPATHY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEGETABLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION INJURY; TIME;

AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; DIET; DIETARY FIBER; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIATION INJURIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84915788726     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2014.11.025     Document Type: Article

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