TY  - EJOU
AU  - Rodrigues, George 
AU  - Lock, Michael 
AU  - D’Souza, David 

TI  - Toxicity and health-related quality-of-life assessment in prostate radiotherapy
T2  - Canadian Journal of Urology

PY  - 2007
VL  - 14
IS  - 4
SN  - 1488-5581

AB  - The use of radiation therapy in the radical treatment of
prostate cancer can lead to potential acute and long-term
toxicity and health-related quality-of-life (HRQoL) changes.
Ongoing investigation into dose-escalation, dose-per-fraction escalation, new radiation treatment technology/
paradigms, and novel systemic therapy may have either
positive and/or negative effects on normal tissue toxicity/
HRQoL. Herein, common toxicity scales and HRQoL
instruments that attempt to describe the deleterious effects
of prostate radiation therapy are reviewed.
KW  - prostatic neoplasms
KW  -  acute and late toxicity
KW  -  health-related quality-of-life
KW  -  questionnaires

DO  -