No impact on sexual function from IMRT.(CANCER NEWSBRIEFS) From: Health News | Date: February 1, 2008 | COPYRIGHT 2008 Belvoir Media Group, LLC. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

To assess the effect of advances in radiation technology on sexual function, Fox Chase Cancer Center (Philadelphia, PA) researchers randomized 155 men with intermediate to high-risk prostate cancer to two different forms of radiation. Seventy-seven men underwent conventional radiation doses for seven and a half weeks; 78 were treated with higher-dose, shorter-term intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) for 36 days At Six, 12,...