Table 4.

Questionnaire scores per RT-type

	Score range	HDR-brachy + external N = 121	HDR-brachy N = 73	Cyberknife N = 38		Brachy + external vs. brachy	Brachy + external vs. cyberknife	Brachy vs. cyberknife
		Mean (SD)	Mean (SD)	Mean (SD)	P value*	P value#	P value#	P value#
Generic health
SF-12—PCS	0–100	46.6 (8.3)	48.7 (7.6)	49.7 (9.3)	0.191	0.111	0.186	0.824
SF-12—MCS	0–100	53.6 (8.9)	54.3 (8.6)	58.3 (6.0)	0.028	0.609	0.008	0.019
EQ-VAS	0–100	77.4 (13.9)	79.0 (14.8)	79.4 (13.5)	0.772	0.571	0.549	0.873
STAI-6	20–80	34.1 (9.5)	32.9 (7.9)	31.0 (6.2)	0.273	0.493	0.121	0.272
Highly anxious (N, %)	≥44	18 (14.9%)	8 (11.0%)	1 (2.6%)
EPIC
Urination	0–100, with higher scores indicating better quality of life
Urinary summary		88.8 (16.3)	89.8 (13.2)	91.7 (12.1)	0.496	0.513	0.289	0.489
Urinary function		88.4 (18.4)	90.3 (14.3)	92.6 (11.4)	0.294	0.352	0.178	0.376
Urinary bother		89.0 (16.2)	89.4 (13.9)	91.1 (13.9)	0.724	0.702	0.459	0.598
Urinary incontinence		84.9 (22.3)	86.6 (19.1)	91.5 (14.7)	0.223	0.453	0.105	0.195
Urinary irritative		91.8 (13.9)	92.9 (10.5)	91.9 (12.3)	0.708	0.416	0.837	0.621
Bowel
Bowel summary		93.3 (8.8)	95.4 (7.4)	97.5 (3.0)	0.024	0.133	0.010	0.136
Bowel function		91.3 (10.6)	94.0 (7.7)	96.0 (4.5)	0.020	0.073	0.019	0.181
Bowel bother		95.3 (8.5)	96.7 (7.8)	99.0 (2.9)	0.075	0.341	0.019	0.135
Sexuality
Sexual summary		37.8 (19.6)	45.0 (20.2)	43.2 (21.1)	0.068	0.018	0.242	0.645
Sexual function		21.0 (23.9)	31.3 (26.0)	29.2 (23.9)	0.069	0.058	0.069	0.752
Sexual bother		75.7 (26.6)	76.6 (24.8)	74.4 (31.3)	0.992	0.922	0.913	0.969

SD standard deviation

*3-group comparison: significance tested with ANOVA after log transformation of the scores

^#2-group comparisons: significance tested with T test after log transformation of the scores