Urinary symptoms following external beam radiotherapy of the prostate: Dose-symptom correlates with multiple-event and event-count models

Yahya N 1 , Ebert MA 2 , Bulsara M 3 , House MJ 4 , Kennedy A 5 , Joseph DJ 6 Show all authors , Denham JW 7

Affiliations 

  • 1 School of Physics, University of Western Australia, Australia; School of Health Sciences, National University of Malaysia, Malaysia. Electronic address: noorazrul.yahya@research.uwa.edu.au
  • 2 School of Physics, University of Western Australia, Australia; Department of Radiation Oncology, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Australia
  • 3 Institute for Health Research, University of Notre Dame, Fremantle, Australia
  • 4 School of Physics, University of Western Australia, Australia
  • 5 Department of Radiation Oncology, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Australia
  • 6 Department of Radiation Oncology, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Australia; School of Surgery, University of Western Australia, Australia
  • 7 School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle, Australia
Radiother Oncol, 2015 Nov;117(2):277-82.
PMID: 26476560 DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2015.10.003

Abstract

This study aimed to compare urinary dose-symptom correlates after external beam radiotherapy of the prostate using commonly utilised peak-symptom models to multiple-event and event-count models which account for repeated events.

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