Rectum-spacer related acute toxicity – endoscopy results of 403 prostate cancer patients after implantation of gel or balloon spacers

Rectal spacers are used to limit dose to the anterior rectal wall in high dose external beam radiation therapy of the prostate and have been shown to reduce radiation induced toxicity. Here we report the compl...

Source: Radiation Oncology - March 15, 2019 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Andreas Sch örghofer, Martin Drerup, Thomas Kunit, Lukas Lusuardi, Josef Holzinger, Josef Karner, Michael Groher, Christoph Zoubek, Rosemarie Forstner, Felix Sedlmayer and Frank Wolf Tags: Research Source Type: research