In Reply to Giuliani Et Al.

To the Brachytherapy Editorial Office, Cost-effectivess of SpaceOAR system during prostate cancer radiation therapy: Really helpful or excess of expectations?BrachytherapyVol. 20Issue 6PreviewRecently Patel AK et al. (1) have retrospective evaluated acute patient-reported bowel quality of life (QOL) and rectal bleeding in prostate cancer patients (69 patients) treated with combination external beam radiation (EBRT), low-dose-rate brachytherapy (LDR-BT), and SpaceOAR (a hydrogel absorbable spacer). They concluded that with combination EBRT, LDR-BT, and SpaceOAR, bowel QOL returned to the baseline 3 months after LDR-BT and a clinically significant rectal bleeding less than 5%. This clinical experience highlights how the use of SpaceOAR system rapidly increasing in recent years. Full-Text PDF