Impact of treatment technique on testicular dose and sexual activity in rectal cancer patients

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• What: The authors determined the radiation doses that were administered to the testicles of male patients undergoing radiotherapy (RT) for the treatment of rectal cancer. In the present study, the median age of the sample was of 38 years, and most patients presented moderately-differentiated adenocarcinomas, most commonly of 1b nodal status, T2 tumor stage, and Tumor, Node, Metastasis (TNM) stage IIIC; moreover 26/40 participants had a PTV ranging from of 1,000 to 1,500 cc. Armonk, NY, United_States), version 22.0, and the R environment (R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria), version 3 . . .
  

   

  

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