TY - JOUR
T1 - Relationships Between Rectal Wall Dose-Volume Constraints and Radiobiologic Indices of Toxicity for Patients With Prostate Cancer
AU - Marzi, Simona
AU - Arcangeli, Giorgio
AU - Saracino, Bianca
AU - Petrongari, Maria G.
AU - Bruzzaniti, Vicente
AU - Iaccarino, Giuseppe
AU - Landoni, Valeria
AU - Soriani, Antonella
AU - Benassi, Marcello
PY - 2007/5/1
Y1 - 2007/5/1
N2 - Purpose: The purpose of this article was to investigate how exceeding specified rectal wall dose-volume constraints impacts on the risk of late rectal bleeding by using radiobiologic calculations. Methods and Materials: Dose-volume histograms (DVH) of the rectal wall of 250 patients with prostate cancer were analyzed. All patients were treated by three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy, receiving mean target doses of 80 Gy. To study the main features of the patient population, the average and the standard deviation of the distribution of DVHs were generated. The mean dose , generalized equivalent uniform dose formulation (gEUD), modified equivalent uniform dose formulation (mEUD)0, and normal tissue complication probability (NTCP) distributions were also produced. The DVHs set was then binned into eight classes on the basis of the exceeding or the fulfilling of three dose-volume constraints: V40 = 60%, V50 = 50%, and V70 = 25%. Comparisons were made between them by , gEUD, mEUD0, and NTCP. Results: The radiobiologic calculations suggest that late rectal toxicity is mostly influenced by V70. The gEUD and mEUD0 are risk factors of toxicity always concordant with NTCP, inside each DVH class. The mean dose, although a reliable index, may be misleading in critical situations. Conclusions: Both in three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy and particularly in intensity-modulated radiation therapy, it should be known what the relative importance of each specified dose-volume constraint is for each organ at risk. This requires a greater awareness of radiobiologic properties of tissues and radiobiologic indices may help to gradually become aware of this issue.
AB - Purpose: The purpose of this article was to investigate how exceeding specified rectal wall dose-volume constraints impacts on the risk of late rectal bleeding by using radiobiologic calculations. Methods and Materials: Dose-volume histograms (DVH) of the rectal wall of 250 patients with prostate cancer were analyzed. All patients were treated by three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy, receiving mean target doses of 80 Gy. To study the main features of the patient population, the average and the standard deviation of the distribution of DVHs were generated. The mean dose , generalized equivalent uniform dose formulation (gEUD), modified equivalent uniform dose formulation (mEUD)0, and normal tissue complication probability (NTCP) distributions were also produced. The DVHs set was then binned into eight classes on the basis of the exceeding or the fulfilling of three dose-volume constraints: V40 = 60%, V50 = 50%, and V70 = 25%. Comparisons were made between them by , gEUD, mEUD0, and NTCP. Results: The radiobiologic calculations suggest that late rectal toxicity is mostly influenced by V70. The gEUD and mEUD0 are risk factors of toxicity always concordant with NTCP, inside each DVH class. The mean dose, although a reliable index, may be misleading in critical situations. Conclusions: Both in three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy and particularly in intensity-modulated radiation therapy, it should be known what the relative importance of each specified dose-volume constraint is for each organ at risk. This requires a greater awareness of radiobiologic properties of tissues and radiobiologic indices may help to gradually become aware of this issue.
KW - Dose-volume constraints
KW - Equivalent uniform dose
KW - Late rectal bleeding
KW - Normal tissue complication probability
KW - Prostate cancer
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2006.12.003
DO - 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2006.12.003
M3 - Article
C2 - 17276615
AN - SCOPUS:34247130435
VL - 68
SP - 41
EP - 49
JO - International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics
JF - International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics
SN - 0360-3016
IS - 1
ER -