Dosimetric and anatomic indicators of late rectal toxicity after high-dose intensity modulated radiation therapy for prostate cancer Journal Article
| Authors: | Munbodh, R.; Jackson, A.; Bauer, J.; Ross Schmidtlein, C.; Zelefsky, M. J. |
| Article Title: | Dosimetric and anatomic indicators of late rectal toxicity after high-dose intensity modulated radiation therapy for prostate cancer |
| Abstract: | We seek to identify dosimetric and anatomic indicators of late rectal toxicity in prostate cancer patients treated with intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT). Data from 49 patients sampled from 698 patients treated for clinically localized prostate cancer at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center with IMRT to a dose of 81 Gy were analyzed. The end point of the study was late Grade 2 or worse rectal toxicity within 30 months of treatment. Dosimetric analysis was performed on the rectum surface in three dimensions and on two-dimensional dose maps obtained by flattening the rectum surface using a conformal mapping procedure. Several parameters including the percentage and absolute surface area of the rectum irradiated, mean dose as a function of location on the rectum, planning target volume (PTV) size and rectum size were analyzed for correlation to toxicity. Significance was set at p<0.05 for a two-sided t -test. Correlation between absolute areas irradiated and toxicity was observed on both the rectum surface and flattened rectum. Patients with toxicity also received a significantly higher mean dose to the superior 25% of the rectum surface and 15% of the flattened rectum. PTV volume, PTV height, rectum surface area and average cross-sectional area were significantly larger in patients with toxicity. The conformal mapping procedure has potential utility for evaluating dose to the rectum and risk of toxicity. Late rectal toxicity was related to the irradiation of the upper part of the rectum and also to the absolute area irradiated, PTV size, and rectum size on the planning computed tomography (CT) scan. © 2008 American Association of Physicists in Medicine. |
| Keywords: | clinical article; intensity modulated radiation therapy; radiation dose; radiotherapy dosage; radiation exposure; risk assessment; dose-response relationship, radiation; radiation dosage; prostate cancer; prostatic neoplasms; prostate; imrt; radiotherapy, intensity-modulated; dosimetry; models, statistical; radiation injuries; radiation hazard; radiometry; radiotherapy planning, computer-assisted; rectum; peru tomato mosaic virus; late rectal toxicity; spatial dose analysis; rectum disease |
| Journal Title: | Medical Physics |
| Volume: | 35 |
| Issue: | 5 |
| ISSN: | 0094-2405 |
| Publisher: | American Association of Physicists in Medicine |
| Date Published: | 2008-01-01 |
| Start Page: | 2137 |
| End Page: | 2150 |
| Language: | English |
| DOI: | 10.1118/1.2907707 |
| PUBMED: | 18561689 |
| PROVIDER: | scopus |
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| Notes: | --- - "Cited By (since 1996): 8" - "Export Date: 17 November 2011" - "CODEN: MPHYA" - "Source: Scopus" |
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