Intra-abdominal Surgery and Intestinal Syndromes After Pelvic Radiation Therapy.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To determine the effects of intra-abdominal surgery on the intensities of 5 radiation-induced intestinal syndromes in survivors of pelvic cancer.

Methods and materials

The analysis included 623 women born in 1927 or later who had survived cancer. They all had received external radiation therapy toward the pelvic area to treat gynecologic cancers. Information from 344 women who did not undergo irradiation, matched for age and residency, was also included. Main outcome measures after the surgical procedures were the intensity scores for 5 radiation-induced intestinal syndromes: urgency-tenesmus syndrome, fecal-leakage syndrome, excessive mucus discharge, excessive gas discharge, and blood discharge. The scores were based on symptom frequencies obtained from patient-rep

SUBMITTER: Bull C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10801660 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature