Dosimetric Comparison of Lung-Sparing Radiation Therapy between Volumetric Arc Therapy and Helical Tomotherapy for Unresectable Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma.
Berrin PehlivanKansu SengulAbdullah YesilNilgul NalbantOsman OzturkYurday OzdemirErkan TopkanPublished in: BioMed research international (2019)
Results of this dosimetric comparison clearly demonstrated the possibility of safe hemithoracic irradiation of medically/technically unresectable MPM patients with either of the two rotational RT techniques, namely the VMAT and HT. Clinically, considering their poor prognosis, these promising findings may open a potential new window for curative treatment of unresectable MPM patients, if further confirmed by future clinical studies.
Keyphrases
- radiation therapy
- poor prognosis
- locally advanced
- long non coding rna
- end stage renal disease
- liver metastases
- rectal cancer
- prognostic factors
- radiation induced
- chronic kidney disease
- ejection fraction
- newly diagnosed
- minimally invasive
- mesenchymal stem cells
- patient reported outcomes
- stem cells
- risk assessment
- climate change
- bone marrow