医学
放射外科
放射治疗
背景(考古学)
核医学
全脑放疗
放射科
脑转移
癌症
内科学
转移
生物
古生物学
作者
Jie Xue,Gregory J. Kubicek,Jimm Grimm,Tamara LaCouture,Yan Chen,Howard Goldman,Ellen Yorke
出处
期刊:Journal of Neurosurgery
[Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group]
日期:2014-12-01
卷期号:121 (Suppl_2): 60-68
被引量:22
标识
DOI:10.3171/2014.7.gks141229
摘要
The efficacy and safety of treatment with whole-brain radiotherapy (WBRT) or with stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) for multiple brain metastases (> 10) are topics of ongoing debate. This study presents detailed dosimetric and biological information to investigate the possible clinical outcomes of these 2 modalities.Five patients with multiple brain metastases (n = 11-23) underwent SRS. Whole-brain radiotherapy plans were retrospectively designed with the same MR image set and the same structure set for each patient, using the standard opposing lateral beams and fractionation (3 Gy × 10). Physical radiation doses and biologically effective doses (BEDs) in WBRT and SRS were calculated for each lesion target and for the normal brain tissues for comparison of the 2 modalities in the context of clinical efficacy and published toxicities.The BEDs targeted to the tumor were higher in SRS than in WBRT by factors ranging from 2.4- to 3.0- fold for the mean dose and from 3.2- to 5.3-fold for the maximum dose. In the 5 patients, mean BEDs in SRS (calculated as percentages of BEDs in WBRT) were 1.3%-34.3% for normal brain tissue, 0.7%-31.6% for the brainstem, 0.5%-5.7% for the chiasm, 0.2%-5.7% for optic nerves, and 0.6%-18.1% for the hippocampus.The dose-volume metrics presented in this study were essential to understanding the safety and efficacy of WBRT and SRS for multiple brain metastases. Whole-brain radiotherapy results in a higher incidence of radiation-related toxicities than SRS. Even in patients with > 10 brain metastases, the normal CNS tissues receive significantly lower doses in SRS. The mean normal brain dose in SRS correlated with the total volume of the lesions rather than with the number of lesions treated.
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