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Despite continuing decreases in incidence and mortality rates, cancers of the colon and rectum remain the third leading cause of cancer deaths in the North America [ 1 2 ] . The decline in incidence, and hence mortality, from colorectal cancers is most likely attributable to an increase in recommendations to perform routine screening on average risk individuals and to improved screening techniques [ 2 ] . In addition, there is ever advancing knowledge into the pathogenic mechanism of cancer and resulting strides in the development of more efficacious therapies.
In this figure, the average C-DVH of the rectum was computed for the 6 patients in the grade 3 group as well as the 6 patients in the grade 0 group.
Corresponding DVH's were computed for the PTV, entire rectum (i.e.
Figure 1shows the comparison for the case of the conventional DVH's of the rectum.
Furthermore, this approach was felt to be valid biologically, as integral dose to critical structures has been correlated by many investigators with late treatment toxicity [ 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 ] . The authors are also aware of the special problems related to applying the DVH for tubular and surface structures (such as the rectum and bladder) [ 28 31 ] . However, because C-DVH's of the whole organs were used as the basis for the original clinical decision making on the patient population under consideration (i.e.