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Comparison of late toxicities between between LDR-BT only and LDR-BT with EBRT.
| Toxicities | Strata | BT only n = 420 |
BT+ EBRT n = 68 |
p-value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | (%) | No. | (%) | |||
| Gastrointestinal | 0 | 390 | (93%) | 50 | (74%) | <0.0001 |
| 1 | 24 | (6%) | 13 | (19%) | ||
| 2 | 6 | (1%) | 5 | (7%) | ||
| 3 | 0 | (0%) | 0 | (0%) | ||
| Genitourinary | 0 | 248 | (59%) | 42 | (62%) | 0.053 |
| 1 | 153 | (36%) | 25 | (37%) | ||
| 2 | 17 | (4%) | 1 | (1%) | ||
| 3 | 2 | (0.5%) | 0 | (0%) | ||
LDR-BT; low-dose-rate brachytherapy, EBRT: external beam radiotherapy, BT; brachytherapy.
