Interventions to reduce acute and late adverse gastrointestinal effects of pelvic radiotherapy for primary pelvic cancers

TA Lawrie, JT Green, M Beresford… - Cochrane Database …, 2018 - cochranelibrary.com
Background An increasing number of people survive cancer but a significant proportion
have gastrointestinal side effects as a result of radiotherapy (RT), which impairs their quality …

Pelvic complications after prostate cancer radiation therapy and their management: an international collaborative narrative review

R Matta, CR Chapple, M Fisch, A Heidenreich… - European urology, 2019 - Elsevier
Context Radiotherapy used for treating localized prostate cancer is effective at prolonging
cancer-specific and overall survival. Still, acute and late pelvic toxicities are a concern, with …

Cost of new technologies in prostate cancer treatment: systematic review of costs and cost effectiveness of robotic-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy, intensity …

FR Schroeck, BL Jacobs, SB Bhayani, PL Nguyen… - European urology, 2017 - Elsevier
Context Some of the high costs of robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP), intensity-
modulated radiotherapy (IMRT), and proton beam therapy may be offset by better outcomes …

[HTML][HTML] Image-guided radiotherapy for prostate cancer

A Dang, PA Kupelian, M Cao, N Agazaryan… - Translational …, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) has become the standard radiotherapy technology
utilized for the treatment of prostate cancer, as it permits the delivery of highly conformal …

[HTML][HTML] Intensity-modulated radiotherapy for prostate cancer

BW Fischer-Valuck, YJ Rao… - … andrology and urology, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Radiation therapy (RT) is a curative treatment modality for localized prostate cancer. Over
the past two decades, advances in technology and imaging have considerably changed RT …

Short fractionation radiotherapy for early prostate cancer in the time of COVID-19: long-term excellent outcomes from a multicenter Italian trial suggest a larger …

S Barra, A Guarnieri, MB di Monale E Bastia… - La radiologia …, 2021 - Springer
Introduction To evaluate stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) in low-risk Prostate Cancer
patients as preferred treatment option in emergency health conditions. Materials and …

Patient-reported functional outcome measures and treatment choice for prostate cancer

T Tiruye, M O'Callaghan, K Moretti, A Jay, B Higgs… - BMC urology, 2022 - Springer
Background The aim of this study was to describe changes in patient-reported functional
outcome measures (PROMs) comparing pre-treatment and 12 months after radical …

[HTML][HTML] National population-based study comparing treatment-related toxicity in men who received intensity modulated versus 3-dimensional conformal radical …

A Sujenthiran, J Nossiter, SC Charman, M Parry… - International Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Purpose To compare, in a national population-based study, severe genitourinary (GU) and
gastrointestinal (GI) toxicity in patients with prostate cancer who were treated with radical …

Effects of surgery versus radiotherapy in patients with localized prostate cancer in terms of urinary, bowel, and sexual domains

C Yu, J Yao, Y He, J Huang, M Chen, M Qian… - Cancer …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background The health‐related quality of life (HRQoL) of patients with localized prostate
cancer (LPCa) after treatment mainly surgery and radiotherapy (RT) has received increasing …

Technological evolution of radiation treatment: Implications for clinical applications

R Pacelli, M Caroprese, G Palma, C Oliviero… - Seminars in …, 2019 - Elsevier
The contemporary approach to the management of a cancer patient requires an “ab initio”
involvement of different medical domains in order to correctly design an individual patient's …