A biodegradable rectal balloon implant to protect the rectum during prostate cancer radiotherapy for a patient with active Crohn's disease.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Radiotherapy in patients with active inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is usually considered an absolute exclusion criterion for prostate cancer radiotherapy treatment.There are no reports available on the use of a biodegradable rectal balloon implantation (RBI) in patients with active IBD for prostate cancer radiotherapy.

Case presentation

We report on a patient with high-risk prostate cancer with the comorbidity of an active IBD with pancolitis location. He was treated with neo-adjuvant hormonal therapy and high-dose external beam radiotherapy to the prostate and the seminal vesicles. Before radiotherapy treatment, a biodegradable RBI was implanted between the prostate and the anterior rectal wall to push the rectum outside of the high-dose area. This patient at

SUBMITTER: Vanneste BGL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7033750 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature