# OnCo record prostate-radiotherapy-bladder-and-rectal-preparation (protocol). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
@prefix schema: <https://schema.org/> .
@prefix onco: <https://onco.cc/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://onco.cc/protocols/prostate-radiotherapy-bladder-and-rectal-preparation/>
  a schema:MedicalGuideline ;
  onco:kind "protocol" ;
  schema:identifier "prostate-radiotherapy-bladder-and-rectal-preparation" ;
  schema:name "Bladder filling and rectal preparation for prostate radiotherapy"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "bladder filling protocol"@en, "full bladder for radiotherapy"@en, "drinking water before radiotherapy"@en, "rectal preparation for radiotherapy"@en, "micro-enema before radiotherapy"@en, "bowel preparation for prostate radiotherapy"@en, "empty bowel radiotherapy"@en, "bladder scan before radiotherapy"@en ;
  schema:description "For prostate radiotherapy you are usually asked to empty your bladder and then drink a set amount of water before the planning scan and every treatment. A comfortably full bladder pushes the bowel away from the radiation. Some centres also ask for a small enema or laxatives to empty the back passage, but newer studies suggest this is not needed for everyone when daily scans check the position."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/protocols/prostate-radiotherapy-bladder-and-rectal-preparation/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-11-11"^^xsd:date ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/prostate/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/in-room-imaging-systems/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/imrt-igrt/> ;
  onco:terms <https://onco.cc/terms/radiotherapy/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/prostate-radiotherapy-fractionation/> .