A systematic post-QUANTEC review of tolerance doses for late toxicity after prostate cancer radiotherapy

The aim of this study was to systematically review tolerance doses for late distinct gastrointestinal, genitourinary, and sexual dysfunction (GI/GU/SD) symptoms following external-beam RT (EBRT) alone and treatments involving brachytherapy (BT ±EBRT) for prostate cancer post-QUANTEC, and to ultimately perform quantitative syntheses of identified dose/volume tolerances represented by dose-volume histogram (DVH) thresholds, i.e., statistically significant (p≤0.05) cutoff points between symptomatic and asymptomatic patients in a certain s tudy.
Source: International Journal of Radiation Oncology * Biology * Physics - Category: Radiology Authors: Tags: Physics Contribution Source Type: research