- Title
- A prospective study of nomogram-based adaptation of prostate radiotherapy target volumes
- Creator
- Wu, Raymond; Woodford, Hannah; Capp, Anne; Hunter, Perry; Cowin, Gary; Tai, Keen-Hun; Nguyen, Paul L.; Chong, Peter; Martin, Jarad
- Relation
- Radiation Oncology Vol. 10, Issue 1
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13014-015-0545-y
- Publisher
- Biomed Central
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2015
- Description
- Background: A prospective clinical trial was conducted to evaluate the feasibility of a novel approach to the treatment of patients with high risk prostate cancer (HRPC) through the use of a nomogram to tailor radiotherapy target volumes. Methods: Twenty seven subjects with HRPC were treated with a mildly hypofractionated radiotherapy regimen using image-guided IMRT technique between Jun/2013-Jan/2015. A set of validated prognostic factors were inputted into the Memorial-Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) prostate cancer nomogram to estimate risk of loco-regional spread (LRS). The nomogram risk estimates for extra-capsular extension (ECE), seminal vesicles involvement (SVI), and pelvic lymph nodes involvement (LNI) were used to adapt radiotherapy treatment volumes based on a risk threshold of ≥15% in all cases. A planning guide was used to delineate target volumes and organs at risk (OAR). Up to three dose levels were administered over 28 fractions; 70Gy for gross disease in the prostate +/- seminal vesicles (2.5Gy/fraction), 61.6Gy for subclinical peri-prostatic disease (2.2Gy/fraction) and 50.4Gy to pelvic nodes (1.8Gy/fraction). Data regarding protocol adherence, nomogram use, radiotherapy dose distribution, and acute toxicity were collected. Results: Nomogram use: 100% of patients were treated for ECE, 88.9% for SVI, and 70.4% for LNI. The three areas at risk of LRS were appropriately treated according to the study protocol in 98.8% cases. The MSKCC nomogram estimates for LRS differed significantly between the time of recruitment and analysis. Contouring protocol compliance: Compliance with the trial contouring protocol for up to seven target volumes was 93.0% (159/171). Compliance with protocol for small bowel contouring was poor (59.3%). Dose constraints compliance: Compliance with dose constraints for target volumes was 97.4% (191/196). Compliance with dose constraints for OAR was 88.2% (285/323). Acute toxicity: There were no grade 3 acute toxicities observed. 20/27 (74.1%) and 6/27 (22.2%) patients experienced a grade 2 genitourinary and gastrointestinal toxicity respectively. Conclusions: We have demonstrated the feasibility of this novel risk-adapted radiation treatment protocol for HRPC. This study has identified key learning points regarding this approach, including the importance of standardization and updating of risk quantification tools, and the utility of an observer to verify their correct use.
- Subject
- prostatic neoplasms; radiotherapy; nomograms; high risk prostate cancer
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1323028
- Identifier
- uon:24716
- Identifier
- ISSN:1748-717X
- Rights
- © 2015 Wu et al. Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
- Language
- eng
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