Pencil Beam Scanning Proton Therapy for Paediatric Neuroblastoma with Motion Mitigation Strategy for Moving Target Volumes.

Lim, P S; Pica, A; Hrbacek, J; Bachtiary, B; Walser, M; Lomax, A J; Weber, D. C. (2020). Pencil Beam Scanning Proton Therapy for Paediatric Neuroblastoma with Motion Mitigation Strategy for Moving Target Volumes. Clinical oncology, 32(7), pp. 467-476. Elsevier 10.1016/j.clon.2020.02.002

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AIMS

More efforts are required to minimise late radiation side-effects for paediatric patients. Pencil beam scanning proton beam therapy (PBS-PT) allows increased sparing of normal tissues while maintaining conformality, but is prone to dose degradation from interplay effects due to respiratory motion. We report our clinical experience of motion mitigation with volumetric rescanning (vRSC) and outcomes of children with neuroblastoma.

MATERIALS AND METHODS

Nineteen patients with high-risk (n = 16) and intermediate-risk (n = 3) neuroblastoma received PBS-PT. The median age at PBS-PT was 3.5 years (range 1.2-8.6) and the median PBS-PT dose was 21 Gy (relative biological effectiveness). Most children (89%) were treated under general anaesthesia. Seven patients (37%) underwent four-dimensional computed tomography for motion assessment and were treated with vRSC for motion mitigation.

RESULTS

The mean result of maximum organ motion was 2.7 mm (cranial-caudal), 1.2 mm (left-right), 1.0 mm (anterior-posterior). Four anaesthetised children (21%) showing <5 mm motion had four-dimensional dose calculations (4DDC) to guide the number of vRSC. The mean deterioration or improvement to the planning target volume covered by 95% of the prescribed dose compared with static three-dimensional plans were: 4DDC no vRSC, -0.6%; 2 vRSC, +0.3%; 4 vRSC, +0.3%; and 8 vRSC, +0.1%. With a median follow-up of 14.9 months (range 2.7-49.0) there were no local recurrences. The 2-year overall survival was 94% and distant progression-free survival was 76%. Acute grade 2-4 toxicity was 11%. During the limited follow-up time, no late toxicities were observed.

CONCLUSIONS

The early outcomes of mainly high-risk patients with neuroblastoma treated with PBS-PT were excellent. With a subset of our cohort undergoing PBS-PT with vRSC we have shown that it is logistically feasible and safe. The clinical relevance of vRSC is debatable in anaesthetised children with small pre-PBS-PT motion of <5 mm.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Haematology, Oncology, Infectious Diseases, Laboratory Medicine and Hospital Pharmacy (DOLS) > Clinic of Radiation Oncology

UniBE Contributor:

Weber, Damien Charles

Subjects:

600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health

ISSN:

1433-2981

Publisher:

Elsevier

Language:

English

Submitter:

Beatrice Scheidegger

Date Deposited:

10 Mar 2020 15:06

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 15:37

Publisher DOI:

10.1016/j.clon.2020.02.002

PubMed ID:

32081577

Uncontrolled Keywords:

Neuroblastoma children motion mitigation strategy pencil beam scanning proton therapy volumetric scanning

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.141221

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/141221

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