Body mass index can affect gastrointestinal and genitourinary toxicity in patients with prostate cancer treated with external beam radiation therapy

The aim of the present study was to determine the impact of obesity on radiation-induced gastrointestinal (GI) and genitourinary (GU) toxicity. The cases of 54 patients with prostate cancer, treated with three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy (RT), were reviewed. For each patient, the body ma...

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Autores principales: DOI, HIROSHI, ISHIMARU, FUMIKO, TANOOKA, MASAO, INOUE, HIROYUKI, ODAWARA, SOICHI, TAKADA, YASUHIRO, NIWA, YASUE, FUJIWARA, MASAYUKI, KAMIKONYA, NORIHIKO, YAMAMOTO, SHINGO, HIROTA, SHOZO
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: D.A. Spandidos 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3861581/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24348850
http://dx.doi.org/10.3892/ol.2013.1658

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