A treatment with SpaceOAR™ hydrogel does reduce late toxicity Grad 2 and Grad 3 of radiation therapy in prostate cancer patients
The degradable SpaceOAR™ hydrogel establishes for the time of radiotherapy a distance between the prostate and the rectum
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
119
Clinic for Radiooncology and Radiotherapy, Evangelical Clinics Gelsenkirchen
Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
the rectal complication rate (late toxicity)
the rectal complication rate following the common toxicity criteria (CTC) v. 2.0
Time frame: 6 months and yearly for 5 years thereafter
Quality of Life
The validated Expanded Prostate Cancer Index Composite (EPIC) questionnaire in combination with the validated Short Form Health Survey (SF-12) will be used to document the influence on the quality of life (QoL).
Time frame: 6 months and for 5 years yearly thereafter
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