"I think this is another example of the fact that radiation therapy can have side effects on associated structures or systems, even years after the end of the radiation treatment cycle," said Tomas L. Griebling, MD, MPH, AUA spokesperson, and associate professor and vice chair of the Departm...
Nursing Trajectories of sleep disturbance in men with prostate cancer beforeduringand after radiation therapy UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIASAN FRANCISCO Christine Miaskowski LiuJia-NiThis study of prostate cancer patients who underwent radiation therapy (RT) examined how total sleep time changed from the time...
There have been significant advancements in the quality and precision of radiation therapy (RT) for prostate cancer over the past two decades. The development and implementation of intensity-modulated radiation therapy has allowed for RT dose-escalation without parallel increases in treatment morbidity. ...
Purpose: Geometric uncertainties in the process of radiation planning and delivery constrain dose escalation and induce normal tissue complications. An ima... - 《Jama》 被引量: 1911发表: 1998年 Biochemical outcome after radical prostatectomy, external beam radiation therapy, or interstitial radiation ...
PURPOSE: To analyze the frequency and clinical importance of proctitis and hematochezia after radiation therapy for prostate cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Of 63 patients with prostate cancer treated with curative intent by a single radiation oncologist between July 1, 1993, and December 31, 1997, ...
Two years after radiation therapy, 91% of patients were free of bleeding, and only 2.6% reported bothersome bleeding problems. Correlations between EPIC-26 and EPIC-CP bowel scores were very high (r2=0.90-0.96) and were statistically improved with the addition of rectal bleeding information (r2...
The use of the serum marker prostate-specific antigen () has altered drastically the follow-up after . is far superior to any other method of detecting recurrences after either radiation therapy or radical prostatectomy. Once the reaches a nadir level after radiation therapy or becomes undetectable...
adefinitive treatment of the prostate (radical prostatectomy [RP] or brachytherapy [BT]) or no surgery or radiation therapy (NSR) 摄护腺根本摄护腺术RP (或brachytherapy (BT的) 权威性的论述 ()) 或者没有手术或者放射治疗 (NSR)[translate]...
More than 60% of the initial failures were local, and more than 25% of the failures occurred after 10 years. Radiation therapy was used in 137 patients with clinically staged disease. Radical retropubic prostatectomy and perineal prostatectomy were performed in 133 and 44 patients, respectively. ...
Results All patients reported change in potency after radiation. Eight patients (42%) remained potent but showed a decrease of 1 or 2 levels of potency, as defined by the IIEF-5 questionnaire (reduced potency group), while 11 patients (58%) reported a change of higher levels and revealed ...