BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: To compare rates of late gastrointestinal toxicity, late genitourinary toxicity and biochemical failure between patients treated for prostate cancer with implanted fiducial marker image guided radiotherapy (FMIGRT), and those treated without FMIGRT.
METHODS AND MATERIALS: We performed a single institution retrospective study comparing all 311 patients who received 74Gy without fiducial markers in 2006 versus all 243 patients who received our updated regimen of 78Gy with FMIGRT in 2008. Patient records were reviewed 27months after completing radiotherapy. Biochemical failure was defined using the Phoenix definition. Details of late gastrointestinal and genitourinary toxicities were graded according to CTCAEv4. Moderate/severe toxicity was defined as a grade 2 or higher toxicity. Cumulative incidence and prevalence curves for moderate/severe toxicity were constructed and compared using multistate modeling while biochemical failure free survival was compared using the log rank test. A Cox regression model was developed to correct for confounding factors.
RESULTS: Median follow-up time for both groups was 22months. The hazard ratio for moderate/severe late gastrointestinal toxicity in the non-FMIGRT group was 3.66 [95% CI (1.63-8.23), p=0.003] compared to patients in the FMIGRT group. There was no difference in the hazard ratio of moderate/severe late genitourinary toxicity between the two groups (0.44 [95% CI (0.19-1.00)]), but patients treated with FMIGRT did have a quicker recovery from their genitourinary toxicities HR=0.24 [95% CI (0.10-0.59)]. We were unable to detect any differences in biochemical failure free survival between the cohorts HR=0.60 [95% CI (0.30-1.20), p=0.143].
CONCLUSION: Despite dose escalation, the use of FMIGRT in radical radiotherapy for prostate cancer significantly reduces the incidence of gastrointestinal toxicity and the duration of late genitourinary toxicity when compared to conventional non-FMIGRT techniques.
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Kok D, Gill S, Bressel M, Byrne K, Kron T, Fox C, Duchesne G, Tai KH, Foroudi F. Are you the author?
Division of Radiation Oncology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia; Medical Education Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne, Australia.
Reference: Radiother Oncol. 2013 May;107(2):140-6.
doi: 10.1016/j.radonc.2013.04.007
PubMed Abstract
PMID: 23684585
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