Posterior urethral complications of the treatment of prostate cancer

AR Mundy, DE Andrich - BJU international, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
What's known on the subject? and What does the study add? Urethral strictures, bladder
neck and posterior urethral contractures, and urorectal fistulation are three well‐recognised …

ASCENDE-RT: an analysis of treatment-related morbidity for a randomized trial comparing a low-dose-rate brachytherapy boost with a dose-escalated external beam …

S Rodda, S Tyldesley, WJ Morris, M Keyes… - International Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Purpose To report the genitourinary (GU) and gastrointestinal (GI) morbidity and erectile
dysfunction in a randomized trial comparing 2 methods of dose escalation for high-and …

Late rectal complications after prostate brachytherapy for localized prostate cancer: incidence and management

J Phan, DA Swanson, LB Levy, RJ Kudchadker… - Cancer, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
This review of the literature on late rectal complications after prostate brachytherapy
indicated that it is a highly effective treatment modality for patients with clinically localized …

Hyperbaric oxygen treatment of chronic refractory radiation proctitis: a randomized and controlled double-blind crossover trial with long-term follow-up

RE Clarke, LMC Tenorio, JR Hussey, AS Toklu… - International Journal of …, 2008 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: Cancer patients who undergo radiotherapy remain at life-long risk of radiation-
induced injury to normal tissues. We conducted a randomized, controlled, double-blind …

[HTML][HTML] Improvement in toxicity in high risk prostate cancer patients treated with image-guided intensity-modulated radiotherapy compared to 3D conformal …

J Sveistrup, PM af Rosenschöld, JO Deasy, JH Oh… - Radiation …, 2014 - Springer
Background Image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) facilitates the delivery of a very precise
radiation dose. In this study we compare the toxicity and biochemical progression-free …

Comparison of acute and late toxicities for three modern high-dose radiation treatment techniques for localized prostate cancer

N Mohammed, L Kestin, M Ghilezan, D Krauss… - International Journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: We compared acute and late genitourinary (GU) and gastrointestinal (GI)
toxicities in prostate cancer patients treated with three different high-dose radiation …

Investigation of bladder dose and volume factors influencing late urinary toxicity after external beam radiotherapy for prostate cancer

MR Cheung, SL Tucker, L Dong… - International Journal of …, 2007 - Elsevier
Background: We sought to identify the bladder dose–volume factors associated with an
increased risk of late urinary toxicity among prostate cancer patients treated with …

Magnetic resonance image‐guided salvage brachytherapy after radiation in select men who initially presented with favorable‐risk prostate cancer: a prospective …

PL Nguyen, MH Chen, AV D'Amico… - … Journal of the …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND. The authors prospectively evaluated the late gastrointestinal (GI) and
genitourinary (GU) toxicity and prostate‐specific antigen (PSA) control of magnetic …

Long-term efficacy and toxicity of low-dose-rate 125I prostate brachytherapy as monotherapy in low-, intermediate-, and high-risk prostate cancer

JA Kittel, CA Reddy, KL Smith, KL Stephans… - International Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Purpose/Objectives To report long-term efficacy and toxicity for a single-institution cohort of
patients treated with low-dose-rate prostate brachytherapy permanent implant (PI) …

Risk factors for the development of prostate brachytherapy related urethral strictures

GS Merrick, WM Butler, KE Wallner… - The Journal of …, 2006 - auajournals.org
Purpose: We identified clinical, treatment and dosimetric parameters associated with the
development of urethral strictures following permanent prostate brachytherapy. Materials …