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Acute gastrointestinal complications occur in 80% of patients in pelvic radiation therapy [1]. The small intestine appears to be more sensitive to radiation than the colon and rectum [2] and is also more frequently exposed incidentally to radiation during treatment of adjacent organs because of its situation within the peritoneal cavity.

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Sourati, A., Ameri, A., Malekzadeh, M. (2017). Enteritis. In: Acute Side Effects of Radiation Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55950-6_15

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