Jack Williams, Kevin Mc Millan, Damien Bolton, Alwin Tan, Chee Wee Cham, Trung Pham, David Pan, Madalena Liu, Yee Chan, Paul Manohar, Joe Thomas, George Koufogiannis, Huong Ho, Mario Guerrieri, Michael Ng, Thomas Boike, Craig Macleod, Daryl Lim Joon, Farshad Foroudi, Michael Chao
OBJECTIVES: To report on the usability, safety, symmetry, and effectiveness of hyaluronic acid (HA) injected between the prostate and the rectum for patients undergoing treatment for prostate cancer with external beam radiotherapy (EBRT), and present a novel definition of rectal spacer symmetry that is reproducible and independent of patient anatomy. PATIENTS AND METHODS: 102 consecutive patients with clinical stage of T1c-3b prostate cancer underwent general anaesthesia for fiducial marker insertion and injection of HA into the perirectal space before EBRT...
October 3, 2022: Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences