Daily-Diary Evaluated Side-Effects of Conformal versus Conventional Prostatic Cancer Radiotherapy Technique

Profiles and Time Course of Acute Radiation Toxicity Symptoms during Conformal Radiotherapy for Cancer of the Prostate

“…However, it demonstrates a steady increase in the total toxicity burden throughout the treatment course. Two months after cessation of RT, the TSS had abated and was not significantly different from pretreatment values, which is in agreement with other studies (8,18,20). However, not all patients were symptom-free at week 15, a trend was observed (p 0/0.07) towards persistence of symptoms, of which loose stools and abdominal pain were dominant.…”

“…Symptoms tend to increase in frequency during RT and decrease after cessation of radiation (7,8). The mechanisms by which symptoms are elicited are poorly understood, as recently reviewed (9).…”

Quality of life and symptoms in a randomized trial of radiotherapy versus deferred treatment of localized prostate carcinoma

“…14,28 However, the current study consisted of a rather small sample of patients in the two different In a randomized trial of conformal versus conventional RT in PC patients, Dearnaley et al, 3 found fewer patients with proctitis and rectal bleeding in the conformal group. In that study, modest doses of 64 Gy were used as in our study, and the magnitude and type of symptoms were similar to those in the Dearnaley et al study.…”

Daily-diary Evaluated Side Effects of Dose-escalation Radiotherapy of Prostate Cancer Using the Stereotactic Beamcath®R; Technique

“…All patients were given the same daily diary, except those treated with the conventional 4-field box technique (placebo or sucralfate) and the first 16 patients treated with the conformal technique, who used a daily diary that did not contain any questions about urinary function (2,13). The patients started the daily diary on day 1 of treatment and continued their self-assessments for 12 weeks (8 weeks in the conventional group).…”

“…In the present study, patient-evaluated side effects were compared at baseline and at the 1-year follow-up after doseescalation radiotherapy for PC using BeamCath † , for the stereotactic technique. Patients treated with the conventional 4-field box technique or with the conformal technique were also compared (5/70 Gy) using the same selfassessed daily diary (2,13).…”