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[Radiotherapy after tumour prostheses-status, indication, coordination]
M Niewald1, P Melchior2, Y Dzierma2
1Klinik für Strahlentherapie und Radioonkologie, Universitätsklinikum des Saarlandes, 66424, Homburg/Saar, Deutschland. marcus.niewald@uks.eu.
Background:
Patients with complex tumour prostheses often require radiotherapy or radiochemotherapy.
Objectives:
Possible tumour diagnoses, indications, planning and therapy procedures, and prognosis of radiotherapy in the context of an interdisciplinary treatment for bone sarcomas are reviewed, including interactions of metal prostheses with radiation and possible subsequent complications.
Methods:
Literature search, summary of personal experience.
Results:
Complex prosthetic procedures are usually applied to patients suffering from Ewing sarcoma or osteosarcoma. In patients with Ewing sarcoma, radiotherapy is an integral part of multimodal treatment, while in patients with osteosarcoma radiotherapy is indicated in special situations. Planning and implementation of radiotherapy treatment can be impaired by metal implants within the target volume (artefacts in the planning computerized tomography, interaction of metal with the therapeutic beam). However, it is-to our knowledge-a point of debate whether radiotherapy after implantation of a prosthesis could impair healing or prosthesis fixation to bone. The data available in the literature suggest that prostheses implanted after radiotherapy entail a higher rate of complications. Multidisciplinary treatment improves the prognosis for these patients markedly.
Conclusions:
Patients with sarcomas of the bone undergoing interdisciplinary treatment consisting of surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy have a favourable prognosis and an acceptable functionality of the limb can be expected.
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