ESTRO course on Image Guided Radiotherapy in Clinical Practice 2018

The Royal Marsden

Diet and Interfraction motion

No diet Anti flatulent diet

Number of patients 23

26

p

Faeces

55%

31%

<0.001

Gas pockets

61%

47%

0.001

Moving gas

43%

28%

<0.001

“Introduction of a dietary protocol for prostate cancer radiotherapy significantly reduced the incidence of feces and (moving) gas in the rectum”

Smitsans IJROBP 2008