Table 2.
Literature review
| Study | Type of study | No. of patients receiving short-term radiotherapy (%) | Experimental group^ No of DR/No of patients(%) |
Control group No of DR/No of patients (%) |
P value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nowacki et al. (2004) [4] | Randomized | 78 (40.4) | 10/97 (10.3) |
27/96 (28.1) |
0.002 |
| Collin et al. (2012) [19] | Randomized | 54 (100.0) | 9/26 (34.6) |
14/28 (50.0) |
0.467 |
| Present study | Randomized | 162 (100.0) | 9/81 (11.1) |
21/81 (25.9) |
0.026 |
| Total | – | 294 (72.9) | 28/204 (13.7) |
60/205 (29.3) |
< 0.001 |
DR distant recurrence
^Experimental group—gentamicin-collagen implant applied in the pelvic cavity