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A multi-institutional clinical trial of rectal dose reduction via injected polyethylene-glycol hydrogel during intensity modulated radiation therapy for prostate cancer: analysis of dosimetric outcomes

Publication date2013
Abstract

To characterize the effect of a prostate-rectum spacer on dose to rectum during external beam radiation therapy for prostate cancer and to assess for factors correlated with rectal dose reduction.

Keywords
  • Humans
  • Hydrogel/administration & dosage
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Organ Size
  • Organ Sparing Treatments/methods
  • Pilot Projects
  • Polyethylene Glycols/administration & dosage
  • Prospective Studies
  • Prostatic Neoplasms/pathology/radiography/radiotherapy
  • Radiation Injuries/prevention & control
  • Radiotherapy Dosage
  • Radiotherapy Planning, Computer-Assisted/methods
  • Radiotherapy, Intensity-Modulated/methods
  • Rectum/anatomy & histology/radiation effects/radiography
  • Regression Analysis
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Urinary Bladder/anatomy & histology/radiography
Citation (ISO format)
SONG, Danny Y et al. A multi-institutional clinical trial of rectal dose reduction via injected polyethylene-glycol hydrogel during intensity modulated radiation therapy for prostate cancer: analysis of dosimetric outcomes. In: International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics, 2013, vol. 87, n° 1, p. 81–87. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2012.12.019
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Journal ISSN0360-3016
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