complication
Radiation enteropathy
enteropathy is a that may develop following or radiation therapy for cancer. Many affected people are cancer survivors who had treatment for cancer or prostate cancer. It has also been termed pelvic radiation disease with radiation proctitis 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, anorexia and malaise
Complications
- ·Stricture formation, malabsorption
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