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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY-CANCER CLINICAL TRIALS
Volume 30, Issue 3, Pages 215-219Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/01.coc.0000256705.93441.a0
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prostate cancer; radiotherapy; intensity modulation radiotherapy; toxicity; outcomes
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Purpose: To compare chronic GU and GI toxicity of pelvic radiotherapy delivered using intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) versus conventional 4-field technique. Methods: The records of consecutive prostate cancer patients receiving RT at a single institution with a minimum follow-up of 120 days were reviewed; 48 of these patients received a prostate boost preceded by pelvic radiotherapy (PRT), 14 with IMRT (IM-PRT), and 34 with 4-field (4F-PRT). Dosimetric endpoints for the bladder, rectum, composite, and target for the PRT plans were compared using the 2-tailed t test. Late RTOG GU and GI toxicity were compared using the X-2 test. Ordered logit regression analyses were performed using all major patient, disease, and treatment factors as covariates. Results: IM-PRT demonstrated superior bladder and rectum dosimetric endpoints over 4F-PRT for the PRT portion of the treatment and for the composite treatment at the expense of higher target inhomogeneity in the PRT portion of the treatment plan. Late GU toxicity was significantly lower in the IM-PRT group (P < 0.001), whereas late GI toxicity was similar in both groups (P = 0.44). When considering a similar follow-up interval in both groups, however, the difference in GU toxicity only reached a trend (P = 0.10). The regression analyses showed that no factor, including IMRT, reached significance in predicting GU or GI toxicity. Conclusion: Use of pelvic IMRT for prostate cancer patients was not associated with reduction of late GI toxicity but was associated with a small reduction of late GU toxicity. This reduction of late GU toxicity warrants further exploration in consortium studies.
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