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Comparison of late toxicities between IG-IMRT and LDR-BT.
| Toxicities | Strata | IG-IMRT n = 269 |
LDR-BT n = 488 |
p-value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | (%) | No. | (%) | |||
| Gastrointestinal | 0 | 233 | (83%) | 440 | (89%) | 0.0023 |
| 1 | 30 | (11%) | 37 | (8%) | ||
| 2 | 11 | (4%) | 11 | (2%) | ||
| 3 | 5 | (2%) | 0 | (0%) | ||
| Genitourinary | 0 | 221 | (82%) | 290 | (59%) | <0.0001 |
| 1 | 36 | (13%) | 178 | (36%) | ||
| 2 | 11 | (4%) | 18 | (4%) | ||
| 3 | 1 | (0.4%) | 2 | (0.4%) | ||
IG-IMRT; image guided intensity modulated radiotherapy.
LDR-BT; low-dose-rate brachytherapy, EBRT: external beam radiotherapy, BT; brachytherapy.
