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Parameters for clinical outcome: Small bowel
Problems in evaluating small bowel toxicity:
1) Different types of treatment can involve small bowel according the primary tumor
site (gastric, pancreas, rectum, prostate, cervical cancer)
2) Different types of combined treatment according to the primary site
1) Chemotherapy (5-Fu, CDDP, Capecitabine, Gemcitabine)
3) Intrinsic movements of small bowel (filling, emptying, peristalsis)
4) Surgery (before radiotherapy)
1) Fixed bowel loops
2) Bowel loops hypovascularization
3) Bowel loops injury