Interventional procedure overview of biodegradable spacer insertion to reduce rectal toxicity during radiotherapy for prostate cancer
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Abbreviations
Word or phrase | Abbreviation |
|---|---|
Anterior posterior | AP |
Brachytherapy | BT |
Confidence Interval | CI |
3-dimensional conformal radiation therapy | 3D-CRT |
External beam radiotherapy | EBRT |
Expanded Prostate Cancer Index Composite | EPIC |
Endorectal balloon | ERB |
Fraction | fx |
Gastrointestinal | GI |
Genitourinary | GU |
Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluation | GRADE |
Hazard Ratio | HR |
High dose rate brachytherapy | HDR BT |
Health technology assessment | HTA |
Image-guided intensity modulated radiotherapy | IG-IMRT |
Intensity modulated proton therapy | IMPT |
Interventional procedure | IP |
Low dose rate brachytherapy | LDR BT |
Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience | MAUDE |
Mean difference | MD |
Minimally Important Difference | MID |
Non-randomised Control Trial | nRCT |
National Cancer Institute Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events | NCI CTCAE |
National Comprehensive Cancer Network | NCCN |
Not significant | NS |
Odds ratio | OR |
Planning target volume | PTV |
polyethylene glycol | PEG |
Proton beam therapy | PBT |
Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses | PRISMA |
Prostate-specific antigen | PSA |
Quality of life | QoL |
Randomised Control Trial | RCT |
Radiotherapy | RT |
Radiation Therapy Oncology Group | RTOG |
Risk difference | RD |
Relative Risk | RR |
Radiotherapy | RT |
Reduction in rectal volume of dose of, for example 50Gy | rV |
Stereotactic body radiation therapy | SBRT |
Standard deviation | SD |
Superior-inferior | SI |
Volumetric modulated arc radiotherapy | VMAT |
Vienna Rectoscopy scores | VRS |
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