Treatment outcome of high-dose image-guided intensity-modulated radiotherapy using intra-prostate fiducial markers for localized prostate cancer at a single institute in Japan

Table 3 Statistical analyses of predictors for late toxicity, p values

	Late grade 2 or 3 GI toxicity		Late grade 2 or 3 GU toxicity
	UA	MA	UA	MA
Age (>71)	0.414	0.42	0.078	0.039^*
ADT	0.025^*	0.401	0.889	0.314
Duration between ADT initiation and the start of IMRT	0.088	0.619	0.522	0.312
Diabetes	0.526	0.877	0.66	0.511
Hypertension	0.396	0.474	0.38	0.732
Hemorrhoid	0.952	0.853	NA	NA
Acute grade 2 GI toxicity	0.743	0.992	NA	NA
Acute grade 2 GU toxicity	NA	NA	<0.001^*	0.001^*
76 Gy vs. 80 Gy	0.77	0.716	0.291	0.987

Abbreviations: G I, gastrointestinal; GU, genitourinary; NA, not applicable; other abbreviations as in Tables1–2.

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