Rectal dose to prostate cancer patients treated with proton therapy with or without rectal spacer

The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether a spacer inserted in the prerectal space could reduce modeled rectal dose and toxicity rates for patients with prostate cancer treated in silico with pencil beam scanning (PBS) proton therapy. A total of 20 patients were included in this study who re...

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Autores principales: Chung, Heeteak, Polf, Jerimy, Badiyan, Shahed, Biagioli, Matthew, Fernandez, Daniel, Latifi, Kujtim, Wilder, Richard, Mehta, Minesh, Chuong, Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2016
Materias:
Radiation Oncology Physics
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5689902/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28291917
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/acm2.12001

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5689902/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28291917
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/acm2.12001

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