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Background
The intent of this pooled analysis as part of the German society for radiation oncology (DEGRO) stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) initiative was to analyze the patterns of care of SBRT for liver oligometastases and to derive factors influencing treated metastases control and overall survival in a large patient cohort.
Methods
From 17 German and Swiss centers, data on all patients treated for liver oligometastases with SBRT since its introduction in 1997 has been collected and entered into a centralized database. In addition to patient and tumor characteristics, data on immobilization, image guidance and motion management as well as dose prescription and fractionation has been gathered. Besides dose response and survival statistics, time trends of the aforementioned variables have been investigated.
Results
In total, 474 patients with 623 liver oligometastases (median 1 lesion/patient; range 1–4) have been collected from 1997 until 2015. Predominant histologies were colorectal cancer (n = 213 pts.; 300 lesions) and breast cancer (n = 57; 81 lesions). All centers employed an SBRT specific setup. Initially, stereotactic coordinates and CT simulation were used for treatment set-up (55%), but eventually were replaced by CBCT guidance (28%) or more recently robotic tracking (17%). High variance in fraction (fx) number (median 1 fx; range 1–13) and dose per fraction (median: 18.5 Gy; range 3–37.5 Gy) was observed, although median BED remained consistently high after an initial learning curve. Median follow-up time was 15 months; median overall survival after SBRT was 24 months. One- and 2-year treated metastases control rate of treated lesions was 77% and 64%; if maximum isocenter biological equivalent dose (BED) was greater than 150 Gy EQD2Gy, it increased to 83% and 70%, respectively. Besides radiation dose colorectal and breast histology and motion management methods were associated with improved treated metastases control.
Conclusion
After an initial learning curve with regards to total cumulative doses, consistently high biologically effective doses have been employed translating into high local tumor control at 1 and 2 years. The true impact of histology and motion management method on treated metastases control deserve deeper analysis. Overall survival is mainly influenced by histology and metastatic tumor burden.
Es erfolgte eine Evaluierung von Bestrahlungsdaten aus der Strahlentherapie der Universitätsklinik Würzburg von 435 Patienten mit biochemischen oder klinischen Rezidiv des Prostatakarzinoms. Der primäre Endpunkt war das biochemisch rezidivfreie Überleben. Sekundäre Endpunkte waren das Auftreten von Fernmetastasen und das Versterben der Patienten. Zudem wurde der Einfluss patienten-, tumor-, und behandlungsspezifischer Faktoren überprüft.
Erythrocyte ghost formation via hemolysis is a key event in the physiological clearance of senescent red blood cells (RBCs) in the spleen. The turnover rate of millions of RBCs per second necessitates a rapid efflux of hemoglobin (Hb) from RBCs by a not yet identified mechanism. Using high-speed video-microscopy of isolated RBCs, we show that electroporation-induced efflux of cytosolic ATP and other small solutes leads to transient cell shrinkage and echinocytosis, followed by osmotic swelling to the critical hemolytic volume. The onset of hemolysis coincided with a sudden self-propelled cell motion, accompanied by cell contraction and Hb-jet ejection. Our biomechanical model, which relates the Hb-jet-driven cell motion to the cytosolic pressure generation via elastic contraction of the RBC membrane, showed that the contributions of the bilayer and the bilayer-anchored spectrin cytoskeleton to the hemolytic cell motion are negligible. Consistent with the biomechanical analysis, our biochemical experiments, involving extracellular ATP and the myosin inhibitor blebbistatin, identify the low abundant non-muscle myosin 2A (NM2A) as the key contributor to the Hb-jet emission and fast hemolytic cell motion. Thus, our data reveal a rapid myosin-based mechanism of hemolysis, as opposed to a much slower diffusive Hb efflux.
Background
The aim of this analysis was to model the effect of local control (LC) on overall survival (OS) in patients treated with stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) for liver or lung metastases from colorectal cancer.
Methods
The analysis is based on pooled data from two retrospective SBRT databases for pulmonary and hepatic metastases from 27 centers from Germany and Switzerland. Only patients with metastases from colorectal cancer were considered to avoid histology as a confounding factor. An illness-death model was employed to model the relationship between LC and OS.
Results
Three hundred eighty-eight patients with 500 metastatic lesions (lung n = 209, liver n = 291) were included and analyzed. Median follow-up time for local recurrence assessment was 12.1 months. Ninety-nine patients with 112 lesions experienced local failure. Seventy-one of these patients died after local failure. Median survival time was 27.9 months in all patients and 25.4 months versus 30.6 months in patients with and without local failure after SBRT. The baseline risk of death after local failure exceeds the baseline risk of death without local failure at 10 months indicating better survival with LC.
Conclusion
In CRC patients with lung or liver metastases, our findings suggest improved long-term OS by achieving metastatic disease control using SBRT in patients with a projected OS estimate of > 12 months.
Purpose
Dose-escalated external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) and EBRT + high-dose-rate brachytherapy (HDR-BT) boost are guideline-recommended treatment options for localized prostate cancer. The purpose of this study was to compare long-term outcome and toxicity of dose-escalated EBRT versus EBRT + HDR-BT boost.
Methods
From 2002 to 2019, 744 consecutive patients received either EBRT or EBRT + HDR-BT boost, of whom 516 patients were propensity score matched. Median follow-up was 95.3 months. Cone beam CT image-guided EBRT consisted of 33 fractions of intensity-modulated radiation therapy with simultaneous integrated boost up to 76.23 Gy (D\(_{Mean}\)). Combined treatment was delivered as 46 Gy (D\(_{Mean}\)) EBRT, followed by two fractions HDR-BT boost with 9 Gy (D\(_{90\%}\)). Propensity score matching was applied before analysis of the primary endpoint, estimated 10-year biochemical relapse-free survival (bRFS), and the secondary endpoints metastasis-free survival (MFS) and overall survival (OS). Prognostic parameters were analyzed by Cox proportional hazard modelling. Genitourinary (GU)/gastrointestinal (GI) toxicity evaluation used the Common Toxicity Criteria for Adverse Events (v5.0).
Results
The estimated 10-year bRFS was 82.0% vs. 76.4% (p = 0.075) for EBRT alone versus combined treatment, respectively. The estimated 10-year MFS was 82.9% vs. 87.0% (p = 0.195) and the 10-year OS was 65.7% vs. 68.9% (p = 0.303), respectively. Cumulative 5‑year late GU ≥ grade 2 toxicities were seen in 23.6% vs. 19.2% (p = 0.086) and 5‑year late GI ≥ grade 2 toxicities in 11.1% vs. 5.0% of the patients (p = 0.002); cumulative 5‑year late grade 3 GU toxicity occurred in 4.2% vs. 3.6% (p = 0.401) and GI toxicity in 1.0% vs. 0.3% (p = 0.249), respectively.
Conclusion
Both treatment groups showed excellent long-term outcomes with low rates of severe toxicity.
Background
International guidelines emphasise the role of radiotherapy (RT) for the management of advanced adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC). However, the evidence for this recommendation is very low.
Methods
We retrospectively analysed all patients who received RT for advanced ACC in five European centres since 2000. Primary endpoint: time to progression of the treated lesion (tTTP). Secondary endpoints: best objective response, progression-free survival (PFS), overall survival (OS), adverse events, and the establishment of predictive factors by Cox analyses.
Results
In total, 132 tumoural lesions of 80 patients were treated with conventional RT (cRT) of 50–60 Gy (n = 20) or 20–49 Gy (n = 69), stereotactic body RT of 35–50 Gy (SBRT) (n = 36), or brachytherapy of 12–25 Gy (BT) (n = 7). Best objective lesional response was complete (n = 6), partial (n = 52), stable disease (n = 60), progressive disease (n = 14). Median tTTP was 7.6 months (1.0–148.6). In comparison to cRT\(_{20-49Gy}\), tTTP was significantly longer for cRT\(_{50-60Gy}\) (multivariate adjusted HR 0.10; 95% CI 0.03–0.33; p < 0.001) and SBRT (HR 0.31; 95% CI 0.12–0.80; p = 0.016), but not for BT (HR 0.66; 95% CI 0.22–1.99; p = 0.46). Toxicity was generally mild and moderate with three grade 3 events. No convincing predictive factors could be established.
Conclusions
This largest published study on RT in advanced ACC provides clear evidence that RT is effective in ACC.
Objectives: Dual-source dual-energy CT (DECT) facilitates reconstruction of virtual non-contrast images from contrast-enhanced scans within a limited field of view. This study evaluates the replacement of true non-contrast acquisition with virtual non-contrast reconstructions and investigates the limitations of dual-source DECT in obese patients. Materials and Methods: A total of 253 oncologic patients (153 women; age 64.5 ± 16.2 years; BMI 26.6 ± 5.1 kg/m\(^2\)) received both multi-phase single-energy CT (SECT) and DECT in sequential staging examinations with a third-generation dual-source scanner. Patients were allocated to one of three BMI clusters: non-obese: <25 kg/m\(^2\) (n = 110), pre-obese: 25–29.9 kg/m\(^2\) (n = 73), and obese: >30 kg/m\(^2\) (n = 70). Radiation dose and image quality were compared for each scan. DECT examinations were evaluated regarding liver coverage within the dual-energy field of view. Results: While arterial contrast phases in DECT were associated with a higher CTDI\(_{vol}\) than in SECT (11.1 vs. 8.1 mGy; p < 0.001), replacement of true with virtual non-contrast imaging resulted in a considerably lower overall dose-length product (312.6 vs. 475.3 mGy·cm; p < 0.001). The proportion of DLP variance predictable from patient BMI was substantial in DECT (R\(^2\) = 0.738) and SECT (R\(^2\) = 0.620); however, DLP of SECT showed a stronger increase in obese patients (p < 0.001). Incomplete coverage of the liver within the dual-energy field of view was most common in the obese subgroup (17.1%) compared with non-obese (0%) and pre-obese patients (4.1%). Conclusion: DECT facilitates a 30.8% dose reduction over SECT in abdominal oncologic staging examinations. Employing dual-source scanner architecture, the risk for incomplete liver coverage increases in obese patients.
Die Fragestellung, ob Question-Prompt-Lists (QPLs) interaktionales Empowerment fördern, wurde nach derzeitigem Kenntnisstand noch nicht untersucht. Bei QPLs handelt es sich um kurze Fragensets oder Kernfragen bezüglich der eigenen Erkrankung oder der Behandlung, die Patient:innen beispielsweise unmittelbar vor einem Aufklärungsgespräch erhalten, um sich aktiv auf dieses vorzubereiten. Der Nutzen einer solchen QPL konnte bereits in zahlreichen Studien belegt werden. Ebenso kommt der Thematik Empowerment bei der Behandlung von Krebspatient:innen eine wichtige Rolle zu: die Betroffenen sollen dahingehend ermutigt und bestärkt werden, sich aktiv mit der eigenen Erkrankung, deren Folgen und Behandlung auseinanderzusetzen, um so schließlich ein höheres Maß an Kontrolle und Lebensqualität zu erlangen. Ziel der Studie war es, den positiven Effekt einer QPL bezüglich des Empowerments der Teilnehmer:innen aufzuzeigen.
Die Fragestellung dieser prospektiv randomisiert kontrollierten Studie war es, ob eine QPL einen signifikanten Effekt auf das Empowerment von Krebspatient:innen haben kann. Die Datenerhebung erfolgte in der Ambulanz für Strahlentherapie des Universitätsklinikums Würzburgs. Insgesamt konnten 279 Patient:innen in die Studie eingeschlossen werden, 140 Teilnehmer:innen in der Interventionsgruppe und 139 Teilnehmer:innen in der Kontrollgruppe, die nach Randomisierung jeweils ihrer Gruppe zugeteilt wurden. Die Patient:innen der Interventionsgruppe erhielten unmittelbar vor dem Gespräch mit dem behandelnden Arzt/ der behandelnden Ärztin eine QPL, anhand derer sie sich individuelle Fragen als Vorbereitung auf das Aufklärungsgespräch überlegen konnten, wohingegen die Teilnehmer:innen der Kontrollgruppe keine solche QPL erhielten. Die aufklärenden Ärzte/ Ärztinnen wussten jeweils nicht, welche Patient:innen zuvor eine QPL erhalten hatten. Nach dem Aufklärungsgespräch füllten beide Gruppen von Teilnehmer:innen dann einen Fragebogen aus, mit Hilfe dessen nach Addition der einzelnen Fragewerte zu einem Summen-Score das Maß an Empowerment gemessen werden sollte. Hierbei konnte gezeigt werden, dass sich der
Mittelwert des Summen-Scores signifikant zwischen der Interventionsgruppe (M=21,7;
SE=0,22; SD=2,65) und der Kontrollgruppe (M=20,8; SE=0,26; SD=3,08) bei einem
Signifikanzlevel von alpha=0,05 und einer Effektgröße von d=0,29 (r=0,16): t(277)=2,71; p=0,007, 95% CI [-1,61, -0,26] unterschied. Außerdem konnte beim Vergleich der einzelnen Fragen des Auswertungsbogens selbst bei 4 von 8 Frageitems ein signifikanter Unterschied zwischen Interventionsgruppe und Kontrollgruppe gezeigt werden. Hierbei handelte es sich um Fragen, die den Fokus auf die relationale, also die beziehungsorientierte Komponente des Aufklärungsgesprächs legten, im Gegensatz zu den Fragen, die den Fokus auf den reinen Zuwachs von Informationen, also die informative Komponente des Aufklärungsgesprächs legten. Somit kann abschließend von einem signifikanten Effekt der Intervention, dem Gebrauch einer QPL, in Bezug auf das Konstrukt Empowerment bei Krebspatient:innen ausgegangen werden. Mit der QPL konnte ein einfaches, gut durchführbares Instrument in den klinischen Alltag der Strahlenambulanz des Universitätsklinikums Würzburg implementiert werden, das von einem Großteil der Patient:innen gut angenommen und als hilfreich bewertet wurde.
(1) Background: The recurrence of glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is mainly due to invasion of the surrounding brain tissue, where organic solutes, including glucose and inositol, are abundant. Invasive cell migration has been linked to the aberrant expression of transmembrane solute-linked carriers (SLC). Here, we explore the role of glucose (SLC5A1) and inositol transporters (SLC5A3) in GBM cell migration. (2) Methods: Using immunofluorescence microscopy, we visualized the subcellular localization of SLC5A1 and SLC5A3 in two highly motile human GBM cell lines. We also employed wound-healing assays to examine the effect of SLC inhibition on GBM cell migration and examined the chemotactic potential of inositol. (3) Results: While GBM cell migration was significantly increased by extracellular inositol and glucose, it was strongly impaired by SLC transporter inhibition. In the GBM cell monolayers, both SLCs were exclusively detected in the migrating cells at the monolayer edge. In single GBM cells, both transporters were primarily localized at the leading edge of the lamellipodium. Interestingly, in GBM cells migrating via blebbing, SLC5A1 and SLC5A3 were predominantly detected in nascent and mature blebs, respectively. (4) Conclusion: We provide several lines of evidence for the involvement of SLC5A1 and SLC5A3 in GBM cell migration, thereby complementing the migration-associated transportome. Our findings suggest that SLC inhibition is a promising approach to GBM treatment.