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Local Dose Effects for Late Gastrointestinal Toxicity After Hypofractionated and Conventionally Fractionated Modern Radiotherapy for Prostate Cancer in the HYPRO Trial
Purpose: Late gastrointestinal (GI) toxicity after radiotherapy for prostate cancer may have significant impact on the cancer survivor's quality of life. To da
Association between incidental dose outside the prostate and tumor control after modern image-guided radiotherapy
Background and purpose: External beam radiotherapy for prostate cancer deposits incidental dose to a region surrounding the target volume. Previously, an association was identified between tumor control and incidental dose for patients treated with conventional radiotherapy. We investigated whether such an association exists for patients treated using intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) and tighter margins. Materials and methods: Computed tomography scans and three-dimensional treatment planning dose distributions were available from the Dutch randomized HYPRO trial for 397 patients in the standard fractionation arm (39 × 2 Gy) and 407 patients in the hypofractionation arm (19 × 3.4 Gy), mainly delivered using online image-guided IMRT. Endpoint was any treatment failure within 5 years. A mapping of 3D dose distributions between anatomies was performed based on distance to the surface of the prostate delineation. Mean mapped dose distributions were computed for patient groups with and without failure, obtaining dose difference distributions. Random patient permutations were performed to derive p values and to identify relevant regions. Results: For high-risk patients treated in the conventional arm, higher incidental dose was significantly associated with a higher probability of tumor control in both univariate and multivariate analysis. The locations of the excess dose mainly o
Patient-reported acute GI symptoms in locally advanced cervical cancer patients correlate with rectal dose
Background and purpose: To investigate relationships between patient-reported acute gastro-intestinal
symptoms in a locally advanced cervical cancer (LACC) prospective cohort and clinical and dosimetric
parameters, while also taking spatial dose into account.
Material and methods: A total of 103 patients was included, receiving radiotherapy based on a
plan-library-based plan-of-the-day protocol, combined either with concurrent chemotherapy or with
neo-adjuvant chemotherapy and concomitant hyperthermia. Toxicity endpoints were extracted from
questionnaires sent out weekly during treatment and regularly in the acute phase after treatment.
Endpoints were defined for symptoms concerning obstipation, diarrhea, fecal leakage, bowel cramps
and rectal bleeding. Dose surface maps were constructed for the rectum. Clinical parameters and
dosimetric parameters of the bowel ba
The Risk of Second Primary Cancers in Prostate Cancer Survivors Treated in the Modern Radiotherapy Era
Purpose: Concerns have been raised that modern intensity modulated radiotherapy
(IMRT) may be associated with increased second primary cancer risks (SPC) compared to
previous three-dimensional conformal radiation techniques (3DCRT), due to increased low
dose volumes and more out-of-field ionizing dose to peripheral tissue further away from
the target. We assessed the impact of treatment technique on SPC risks in a cohort of
prostate
Impact of Rectal Balloon and MRI Delineation on Anorectal Dose and Gastrointestinal Toxicity Levels Reply
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