Role of Overall Treatment Time in the Management of Prostate Cancer Patients: How to Manage Unscheduled Treatment Interruptions

Prostate cancer patients are commonly treated with external beam radiation therapy (RT) and, thanks to modern treatment techniques such as intensity modulated RT and image guided RT that limit dose outside of the prostate, the acute traditional 7- to 9-week course of external beam treatment is generally uneventful with modest morbidity. However, occasionally, there are patients in whom substantial acute symptoms develop, often urinary, who might require a treatment interruption, thus increasing their overall treatment time (OTT).

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