Strahlentherapie und Onkologie : Organ der Deutschen Röntgengesellschaft ... [et al]
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Multicenter Study
Healing of late endoscopic changes in the rectum between 12 and 65 months after external beam radiotherapy.
To evaluate the time course of late rectal mucosal changes after prostate cancer radiotherapy (RT). ⋯ Late rectal mucosal changes are frequent after pelvic RT. Generally only the incidence rates corresponding to the initial diagnosis of the complications, independent of subsequent recovery, are reported. The results reported in the present study show that complications often improve over time. Hence, the usual reports of complication rates overestimate the proportion of patients presenting with side effects of certain grades.