1396 / 1674
Telangiectasia
versus
telangiectasia
Correlation
Intra- and inter-patient variation
Sensitive Resistent
Sensitive Resistent
Telangiectasia - Field II
Telangiectasia - Field I
Telangiectasia
versus
fibrosis
No correlation
Sensitive Resistent
Sensitive Resistent
Fibrosis - Field II
Telangiectasia - Field I
Bentzen and Overgaard (1991) Radiother Oncol 20:159-165
Bentzen and Overgaard's (1993) Eur J Cancer 29A:1373-1376
Conclusions
No correlation between early and
late radiation reactions
No correlation between different
late radiation reactions
But, risk of late reaction in one field
correlates with risk of same damage
in another field