Table 3.
Schedule of assessments.
| Assessment | Screen | RT | Time, mo |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 6 | 12 | 18 | 24 | 36 | |||
| Procedure | X | |||||||
| Informed consent | X | |||||||
| Consult | X | |||||||
| Medications | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |
| Adverse events | X | Once | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| QOL EPIC | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |
| IPSS | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |
| Laboratory | ||||||||
| PSA | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |
| Radiation | 5 txs | |||||||
| Tumor | ||||||||
| Tumor biopsy | X | |||||||
| MRI pelvis (planning) | X | |||||||
| Fiducial markers (guidance) | X | Daily | ||||||
| Rectal balloon | Daily | |||||||
Abbreviations: EPIC, Expanded Prostate Cancer Index Composite; IPSS, International Prostate Symptom Score; MRI, magnetic resonance imaging; PSA, prostate-specific antigen; QOL, quality of life; RT, radiation therapy; txs, treatments.