Table 3.

Acute and late toxicity from different studies

Authors	Acute toxicity						Late toxicity
	GU (%)			GI (%)			GU (%)			GI (%)
	Grade			Grade			Grade			Grade
	2	3	4	2	3	4	2	3	4	2	3	4
3D-conformal radiotherapy
Storey, 2000 [18], Pollack 2002 [2]	24	4	1	43	0	0	10	3	-	19	7	-
Beckendorf, 2004 [15]	30	7	-	28	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Michalski, 2005 [16]	41	3	0	41	3	0	17	4	0	18	2	1
Zietman, 2005 [3]	49	1	1	57	0	0	20	1	0	17	1	0
Peeters, 2005/2006 [1,17]	42	13	0	47	4	0	26	13	-	27	5	-
Intensity-modulated radiotherapy
Zelefsky, 2002/2006 [8,11]	28	0.1	0	5	0	0	9	3	0	2	0.1	0
De Meerleer, 2004/2007 [7,10]	36	7	0	29	0	0	19	3	0	17	1	0
Teh, 2005 [23]	35	0	0	6	0	0	-	-	-	7	2	0
Skala, 2007 [9]	-	-	-	-	-	-	9	1	-	3	1	-
Current study	47	3	0	30	0	0	21	4	0.3	9	1	0.3

Abbreviations: GU = genitourinary; GI = gastrointestinal; - = toxicity rate not available.