Endoscopic Therapy with Argon Plasma for Radiation Proctitis: Factors Associated to the Number of Therapeutic Sessions

Today oncologic diseases show an increase in their incidence and prevalence [1]. Adverse effects or complications of the treatments channeled into cure or improvement of people who suffered from these diseases, may be very serious with deterioration in the quality of life of these people. The chronic radiation proctitis is an example which appears as a result of a radiotherapy implemented on a pelvic malignancy [2,3]. They appear at three months after radiotherapy [2-4], till 31 years later [5] and have reported an incidence between 2-20% [3,4,6].