complication

Radiation enteropathy

is a that may develop following or radiation therapy for cancer. Many affected people are cancer survivors who had treatment for cancer or cancer. It has also been termed pelvic radiation disease with radiation being one of its principal features and radiation-induced lumbar plexopathy (RILP) being a rare consequence.

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Symptoms — what it feels like

·, pain, , vomiting, and malaise

Complications

·Stricture formation,

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