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Wenjuan Zhao1, Linzhen Lan2, Bichun Xu3
1School of Medical Instrument and Food Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China.
Background:
Radiation therapy plays a pivotal role as the primary adjuvant treatment for esophageal cancer (EPC), emphasizing the critical importance of carefully balancing radiation doses to the target area and organs at risk in the radiotherapeutic management of esophageal cancer.
Aims:
This study aimed to explore the correlation between morphological parameters and dosimetric parameters of the heart and spinal cord in intermediate- and advanced-stage esophagus cancer to provide a reference for clinical treatment.
Methods And Results:
A total of 105 patients with intermediate- and advanced-stage EPC, who received treatment in our hospital from 2019 to 2021, were included. The morphological parameters were calculated by imaging. Intensity-modulated radiation therapy plan was executed at Raystation4.7. The PTV-G stood for the externally expanded planning target volume (PTV) of the gross tumor volume (GTV) and PTV-C for the externally expanded volume of the clinical target volume (CTV). The prescription dose of PTV-G and PTV-C was set as 60Gy/30F and 54Gy/30F, respectively. The linear regression model was used to analyze the correlation between morphologic parameters of EPC and dosimetric parameters of the heart and spinal cord. In 105 cases, the total lung length was correlated with the spinal cord maximum dose (D2 ). The heart mean doses (Dmean ) and heart V40 (the relative volume that receives 40 Gy or more) was correlated with PTV-G volume, PTV-G length; In middle- and upper-segment EPC cases, only the total lung volume was correlated with the spinal cord Dmean , spinal cord D2 , heart Dmean , and heart V40 ; In middle-stage EPC cases, the heart Dmean was correlated with the PTV-G volume, PTV-G length. The total lung length was correlated with the spinal cord D2 ; In middle- and lower-segment EPC, only the PTV-G volume and PTV-G length were correlated with the heart Dmean . All the aforementioned values were statistically significant.
Conclusions:
Combined with the unsegmented tumor and different locations, the organ at risk dose was comprehensively considered.
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