Is the irradiated small bowel volume still a predictor for acute lower gastrointestinal toxicity during preoperative concurrent chemo-radiotherapy for rectal cancer when using intensity-modulated radiation therapy?

BACKGROUND: The small bowel (SB) represents the most important dose-limiting structure in pelvic radiotherapy (RT). However, we observed that the majority of rectal cancer patients who received preoperative pelvic intensity modulated RT (IMRT) developed acute tenesmus without watery diarrhea. The ob...

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Autores principales: Xu, Benhua, Guo, Yuyan, Chen, Yuangui, Lu, Haijie, Tang, Tianlan, Yue, Zhicao, Guan, Guoxian, Chi, Pan, Lin, Chi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4683870/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26684643
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13014-015-0566-6

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