This dissertation examines how to minimise gastrointestinal side effects of external prostate cancer radiation therapy by using a rectum spacer (a balloon that shifts the rectum away from the prostate). The rectum spacer is used to increase the space between rectum and prostate, therefore pushing the rectum out of the irradiated area. As a result, patients with prostate cancer suffer less gastrointestinal irritation, including symptoms of diarrhoea, constipation, mucous secretion, cramps and increased frequency of defaecation, faecal urgency or faecal incontinence. Various aspects of the rectum spacer were studied: cost-effectiveness, planning studies (comparative treatments with and without rectum spacer), selection of patients who may ben...
Background: Radiotherapy in patients with active inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is usually conside...
Background and purpose Rectal toxicity presents a significant limiting factor in prostate radiother...
Introduction: External beam radiation therapy is a common treatment option for prostate cancer patie...
This dissertation examines how to minimise gastrointestinal side effects of external prostate cancer...
Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of the balloon spacer when used to reduce the radiation dose del...
Dose-escalated radiation therapy for localized prostate cancer improves disease control but is also ...
International audienceBackground/purpose Dose-escalated external beam radiotherapy (RT) is effective...
Background: Dose-escalated external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) provides better tumor control for ...
Background: External radiation therapy is one of the best management options available for localized...
PurposePerirectal spacing, whereby biomaterials are placed between the prostate and rectum, shows pr...
Introduction: A rectum balloon implant (RBI) is a new device to spare rectal structures during prost...
In the curative radiotherapy of localized prostate cancer, improvements in biochemical control obser...
Purpose: To determine whether rectal displacement devices (RDDs) have a prostate-stabilizing effect...
Dose-escalated prostate radiotherapy (RT) can improve treatment outcomes, but rectal toxicity is the...
Damage in the surrounding structures, including the rectum, due to unintended exposure to radiation ...
Background: Radiotherapy in patients with active inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is usually conside...
Background and purpose Rectal toxicity presents a significant limiting factor in prostate radiother...
Introduction: External beam radiation therapy is a common treatment option for prostate cancer patie...
This dissertation examines how to minimise gastrointestinal side effects of external prostate cancer...
Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of the balloon spacer when used to reduce the radiation dose del...
Dose-escalated radiation therapy for localized prostate cancer improves disease control but is also ...
International audienceBackground/purpose Dose-escalated external beam radiotherapy (RT) is effective...
Background: Dose-escalated external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) provides better tumor control for ...
Background: External radiation therapy is one of the best management options available for localized...
PurposePerirectal spacing, whereby biomaterials are placed between the prostate and rectum, shows pr...
Introduction: A rectum balloon implant (RBI) is a new device to spare rectal structures during prost...
In the curative radiotherapy of localized prostate cancer, improvements in biochemical control obser...
Purpose: To determine whether rectal displacement devices (RDDs) have a prostate-stabilizing effect...
Dose-escalated prostate radiotherapy (RT) can improve treatment outcomes, but rectal toxicity is the...
Damage in the surrounding structures, including the rectum, due to unintended exposure to radiation ...
Background: Radiotherapy in patients with active inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is usually conside...
Background and purpose Rectal toxicity presents a significant limiting factor in prostate radiother...
Introduction: External beam radiation therapy is a common treatment option for prostate cancer patie...