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Evaluation of Dynamic Tumor-tracking Intensity-modulated Radiotherapy for Locally Advanced Pancreatic Cancer.

ABSTRACT: Intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) is now regarded as an important treatment option for patients with locally advanced pancreatic cancer (LAPC). To reduce the underlying tumor motions and dosimetric errors during IMRT as well as the burden of respiratory management for patients, we started to apply a new treatment platform of the dynamic tumor dynamic tumor-tracking intensity-modulated radiotherapy (DTT-IMRT) using the gimbaled linac, which can swing IMRT toward the real-time tumor position under patients' voluntary breathing. Between June 2013 and March 2015, ten patients were treated, and the tumor-tracking accuracy and the practical benefits were evaluated. The mean PTV size in DTT-IMRT was 18% smaller than a conventional ITV-based PTV. The root-mean-squared errors between the predicted and the detected tumor positions were 1.3, 1.2, and 1.5?mm in left-right, anterior-posterior, and cranio-caudal directions, respectively. The mean in-room time was 24.5?min. This high-accuracy of tumor-tracking with reasonable treatment time are promising and beneficial to patients with LAPC.

SUBMITTER: Nakamura A

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6244273 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Evaluation of Dynamic Tumor-tracking Intensity-modulated Radiotherapy for Locally Advanced Pancreatic Cancer.

Nakamura Akira A Hiraoka Masahiro M Itasaka Satoshi S Nakamura Mitsuhiro M Akimoto Mami M Ishihara Yoshitomo Y Mukumoto Nobutaka N Goto Yoko Y Kishi Takahiro T Yoshimura Michio M Matsuo Yukinori Y Yano Shinsuke S Mizowaki Takashi T

Scientific reports 20181120 1

Intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) is now regarded as an important treatment option for patients with locally advanced pancreatic cancer (LAPC). To reduce the underlying tumor motions and dosimetric errors during IMRT as well as the burden of respiratory management for patients, we started to apply a new treatment platform of the dynamic tumor dynamic tumor-tracking intensity-modulated radiotherapy (DTT-IMRT) using the gimbaled linac, which can swing IMRT toward the real-time tumor position ...[more]

PMID: 30459454

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Evaluation of Dynamic Tumor-tracking Intensity-modulated Radiotherapy for Locally Advanced Pancreatic Cancer.

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Evaluation of Dynamic Tumor-tracking Intensity-modulated Radiotherapy for Locally Advanced Pancreatic Cancer.

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