Estimation of late rectal normal tissue complication probability parameters in carbon ion therapy for prostate cancer

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• 作者：Mai Fukahori^a ; ^{fukahori@nirs.go.jp" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Naruhiro Matsufuji^a ; Takeshi Himukai^b ; Nobuyuki Kanematsu^a ; Hideyuki Mizuno^a ; Akifumi Fukumura^a ; Hiroshi Tsuji^a ; Tadashi Kamada^a
• 关键词：Prostate cancer ; Carbon ion radiotherapy ; NTCP
• 刊名：Radiotherapy and Oncology
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：January 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：118
• 期：1
• 页码：136-140
• 全文大小：401 K

文摘

The aim of this study was to estimate normal tissue complication probability (NTCP) parameters for late rectal complications after carbon ion radiotherapy (C-ion RT) for prostate cancer.

Methods and materials

A total of 163 patients were used to derive NTCP parameters. These patients were treated with relative biological effectiveness (RBE)-weighted dose ranging from 57.6 Gy (RBE) up to 72 Gy (RBE) and included in dose escalation trials. The Lyman–Kutcher–Burman (LKB) model was used and the model parameters were fit to the relation between dose and complication observed after C-ion RT.

Results

The resulting NTCP parameters were the volume effect parameter; n = 0.035 (95% CI: 0.024–0.047), the steepness of the NTCP curve; m = 0.10 (0.084–0.13), the tolerance dose associated with 50% probability of complication; TD₅₀ = 63.6 Gy (RBE) (61.8–65.4 Gy (RBE)) for Grade ⩾ 1, n = 0.012 (0.0050–0.023), m = 0.046 (0.033–0.062), TD₅₀ = 69.1 Gy (RBE) (67.6–70.9 Gy (RBE)) for Grade ⩾ 2.

Conclusion

A new set of rectal NTCP parameters in C-ion RT was determined. The rather small n values suggest that the rectum was consistent with being strictly serial organ. The new derived parameter values facilitate estimation of rectal NTCP in C-ion RT.