ESTRO course on Image Guided Radiotherapy in Clinical Practice 2018
The Royal Marsden
Diet and Interfraction motion
No diet Anti flatulent diet
Number of patients 23
26
p
Faeces
55%
31%
<0.001
Gas pockets
61%
47%
0.001
Moving gas
43%
28%
<0.001
“Introduction of a dietary protocol for prostate cancer radiotherapy significantly reduced the incidence of feces and (moving) gas in the rectum”
Smitsans IJROBP 2008
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