Emptying the rectum before treatment delivery limits the variations of rectal dose - volume parameters during 3DCRT of prostate cancer.

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Published in Radiother Oncol on September 07, 2006

Authors

Michele Stasi1, Fernando Munoz, Claudio Fiorino, Massimo Pasquino, Barbara Baiotto, Piergiorgio Marini, Giuseppe Malinverni, Riccardo Valdagni, Pietro Gabriele

Author Affiliations

1: S.C. Fisica Sanitaria, Institute for Cancer Research and Treatment (IRCC), Candiolo (Torino), Italy. michele.stasi@ircc.it

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