SpaceOAR hydrogel can minimize rectal side effects from radiation therapy by creating a 5-10mm space between the prostate and rectum.

“there's there's a gel spacer that that is often inserted it's it's an injection that's done transparentally and it's separates the the rectum from the um from the bladder but in my years of doing this when you're very diligent about how you do this very much like a you know like a surgeon pays attention to details so do we i can actually trim the dose off of the posterior prostate and just make make sure the dose fall off between the posterior prostate and the anterior rectal wall is so rapid that the anterior rectal wall is always going to get some dose but usually it's not clinically significant”