Towards Personalization of Planning Target Volume Margins Fitted to the Abdominal Adiposity in Localized Prostate Cancer Patients Receiving Definitive or Adjuvant/Salvage Radiotherapy: Suggestive Data from an ExacTrac vs . CBCT Comparison.
Gianluca FeriniValentina ZagardoVito ValentiDario AielloManuela FedericoIvan FazioMandara Muralidhar HarikarValentina Anna MarcheseSalvatore Ivan IllariAnna ViolaEmanuele MartoranaPublished in: Anticancer research (2023)
Our results promote the CBCT use over ExacTrac for IGRT of overweight patients with localized prostate cancer, while calling for attention to the probable need for personalization of planning target volume margins depending on the patient's body habitus.
Keyphrases
- prostate cancer
- radical prostatectomy
- early stage
- locally advanced
- cone beam computed tomography
- image quality
- weight gain
- case report
- working memory
- radiation therapy
- physical activity
- electronic health record
- big data
- squamous cell carcinoma
- body mass index
- magnetic resonance
- adipose tissue
- rectal cancer
- skeletal muscle