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  • [Radiother Oncol.] The relative biological effectiveness of carbon ion radiation therapy for early stage lung cancer

    Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center / 정재호*

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    Radiother Oncol.
  • 등재일
    2020 Dec
  • 저널이슈번호
    153:265-271. doi: 10.1016/j.radonc.2020.09.027. Epub 2020 Sep 23.
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    Abstract
    Background and purpose: Carbon ion radiation therapy (CIRT) is recognized as an effective alternative treatment modality for early stage lung cancer, but a quantitative understanding of relative biological effectiveness (RBE) compared to photon therapy is lacking. In this work, a mechanistic tumor response model previously validated for lung photon radiotherapy was used to estimate the RBE of CIRT compared to photon radiotherapy, as a function of dose and the fractionation schedule.

    Materials and methods: Clinical outcome data of 9 patient cohorts (394 patients) treated with CIRT for early stage lung cancer, representing all published data, were included. Fractional dose, number of fractions, treatment schedule, and local control rates were used for model simulations relative to standard photon outcomes. Four parameters were fitted: α, α/β, and the oxygen enhancement ratios of cells either accessing only glucose, not oxygen (OERI), or cells dying from starvation (OERH). The resulting dose-response relationship of CIRT was compared with the previously determined dose-response relationship of photon radiotherapy for lung cancer, and an RBE of CIRT was derived.

    Results: Best-fit CIRT parameters were: α = 1.12 Gy-1 [95%-CI: 0.97-1.26], α/β = 23.9 Gy [95%-CI: 8.9-38.9], and the oxygen induced radioresistance of hypoxic cell populations were characterized by OERI = 1.08 [95%-CI: 1.00-1.41] (cells lacking oxygen but not glucose), and OERH = 1.01 [95%-CI: 1.00-1.44] (cells lacking oxygen and glucose). Depending on dose and fractionation, the derived RBE ranges from 2.1 to 1.5, with decreasing values for larger fractional dose and fewer number of fractions.

    Conclusion: Fitted radiobiological parameters were consistent with known carbon in vitro radiobiology, and the resulting dose-response curve well-fitted the reported data over a wide range of dose-fractionation schemes. The same model, with only a few fitted parameters of clear mechanistic meaning, thus synthesizes both photon radiotherapy and CIRT clinical experience with early stage lung tumors.

     

     

    Affiliations

    Jeho Jeong  1 , Vicki T Taasti  2 , Andrew Jackson  2 , Joseph O Deasy  2
    1 Department of Medical Physics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA. Electronic address: jeongj@mskcc.org.
    2 Department of Medical Physics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA.
    1 Department of Medical Physics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA. Electronic address: jeongj@mskcc.org.
    2 Department of Medical Physics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA.

  • 키워드
    Carbon ion radiation therapy (CIRT); Early stage lung cancer; Radiobiological mechanism; Relative biological effectiveness (RBE); Tumor response model.
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