Salvage radiation therapy in prostate cancer: relationship between rectal dose and long-term, self-reported rectal bleeding.
Karin BraideJ KindblomU LindencronaJ HugossonN PetterssonPublished in: Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico (2020)
We identified dose-response relationships between the rectal dose distribution and the risk of self-reported rectal bleeding of any grade in a long-term perspective for men treated with 3DCRT ST. Furthermore, VMAT ST may have the potential to decrease the prevalence of late rectal bleeding.