TY - JOUR AU - Berlin, Alejandro AU - Di Tomasso, Anne AU - Ballantyne, Heather AU - Patterson, Susan AU - Lam, Tony AU - Sundaramurthy, Aravind AU - Helou, Joelle AU - Bayley, Andrew AU - Chung, Peter PY - 2017/11/01 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Use of hydrogel spacer for improved rectal dose-sparing in patients undergoing radical radiotherapy for localized prostate cancer: First Canadian experience JF - Canadian Urological Association Journal JA - CUAJ VL - 11 IS - 12 SE - Research Letter DO - 10.5489/cuaj.4681 UR - https://cuaj.ca/index.php/journal/article/view/4681 SP - 373-5 AB - We describe the initial experience using a hydrogel spacer (SpaceOAR) to separate the prostate-rectum interspace in patients planned to undergo radical hypofractionated image-guided intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IG-IMRT). We depict and discuss the impact of SpaceOAR in the context of hypofractionated IG-IMRT, and the particular considerations for its applications in the Canadian setting. ER -