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Published on: June 7, 2015
Relationship between dose-volume parameters and pulmonary complications after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy followed
Shigeo Takahashi1, Tetsuhiko Go2, Yoshitaka Kasai2
1Department of Radiation Oncology, Kagawa University Hospital, 1750-1 Ikenobe, Miki-cho, Kita-gun, 761-0793, Kagawa, Japan. shigeot@med.kagawa-u.ac.jp.
Purpose:
This study evaluated the relationship between dose-volume histogram (DVH) parameters and pulmonary complications after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (NACRT) followed by surgery for lung cancer. We also examined a new DVH parameter, because the unresected lung should be more spared than the later resected lung.
Patients And Methods:
Data from 43 non-small cell lung cancer patients were retrospectively analyzed. The DVH parameters of the lung were calculated from the total bilateral lung volume minus (1) the gross tumor volume (DVHg) or (2) the later resected lung volume (DVHr). Radiation pneumonitis (RP) and fistula, including bronchopleural and pulmonary fistula, were graded as the pulmonary complications. Factors affecting the incidences of grade 2 or higher RP (≥G2 RP) and fistula were analyzed.
Results:
Sixteen patients (37 %) experienced ≥G2 RP and a V20 value of the total lung minus the later resected lung (V20r) ≥ 12 % was a significant factor affecting the incidence of ≥G2 RP (p = 0.032). Six patients (14 %) developed a fistula and a V35 value of the total lung minus the gross tumor (V35g) ≥ 19 % and a V40g ≥ 16 % were significant factors affecting the incidence of fistula (p = 0.002 and 0.009, respectively).
Conclusion:
These DVH parameters may be related to the incidences of ≥G2 RP and fistula.
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