1443 / 1601
The Royal Marsden
Diet and Interfraction motion
Smitsans IJROBP 2008
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”