Assessment of rectal and urinary toxicity from the RADAR prostate radiotherapy trial – dosimetric constraints for novel symptom clustering, derivation of radiobiological parameters and assessment of patient localisation effects

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Increasing prostate radiotherapy cure rates by increasing radiation dose is limited by side-effects in the rectum and bladder which can greatly decrease patient quality of life. This study will utilise detailed data, collected during a large Australasian trial, to extract information on how patterns of dose delivery influence side-effects in the bladder and rectum, including a novel definition of rectal toxicity. The result will be more effective future treatment.