Quality of life for prostate cancer patients
How can a radiopaque perirectal spacer enhance the QoL of your patients?
SpaceOAR Vue™ Hydrogel is an innovation that can improve your patient’s quality of life. The enhanced visibility on a CT scan is designed to help you improve contouring accuracy of the prostate and rectum, potentially leading to more accurate treatment planning when compared to SpaceOAR™ Hydrogel.
What is SpaceOAR Vue Hydrogel?
SpaceOAR Vue Hydrogel is an absorbable hydrogel perirectal spacer that temporarily creates space between the prostate and rectum, designed to reduce the radiation dose delivered to the rectum during prostate cancer radiation therapy. SpaceOAR is naturally absorbed after 3 months and is excreted through the patient's urine leaving no implant behind after 6 months.1
Designed with the applier in mind
SpaceOAR Hydrogel can be injected with an 18G needle, under general or local anesthesia, facilitating ambulatory care without dependence on operating room availability. It is a straightforward and safe injection: in a Pivotal Trial, there was a 99% placement success rate.2 Both the radiation oncologists and urologists who applied the spacer rated the device’s ease of use as “easy” or “very easy” 98.7% of the time.2 To ensure that you are comfortable using SpaceOAR Vue Hydrogel, Boston Scientific trains all new implanters through its mandated training pathway, providing support of procedures until you are confident in injecting the gel independently.
Indications, Safety and Warnings
References
1. Data on file with Boston Scientific.
2. Mariados N, Sylvester J, Shah D, et al. Hydrogel spacer prospective multicenter randomized controlled pivotal trial: Dosimetric and clinical effects of perirectal spacer application in men undergoing prostate image guided intensity modulated radiation therapy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2015 Aug 1;92(5):971-7.
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