Assessment of Radiation-Induced Optic Neuropathy in a Multi-Institutional Cohort of Chordoma and Chondrosarcoma Patients Treated with Proton Therapy

Köthe, Andreas; Feuvret, Loïc; Weber, Damien Charles; Safai, Sairos; Lomax, Antony John; Fattori, Giovanni (2021). Assessment of Radiation-Induced Optic Neuropathy in a Multi-Institutional Cohort of Chordoma and Chondrosarcoma Patients Treated with Proton Therapy. Cancers, 13(21) MDPI AG 10.3390/cancers13215327

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Radiation-induced optic neuropathy (RION) is a rare side effect following radiation therapy involving the optic structures whose onset is, due to the low amount of available data, challenging to predict. We have analyzed a multi-institutional cohort including 289 skull-base cancer patients treated with proton therapy who all received >45 GyRBE to the optic apparatus. An overall incidence rate of 4.2% (12) was observed, with chordoma patients being at higher risk (5.8%) than chondrosarcoma patients (3.2%). Older age and arterial hypertension, tumor involvement, and repeated surgeries (>3) were found to be associated with RION. Based on bootstrapping and cross-validation, a NTCP model based on age and hypertension was determined to be the most robust, showing good classification ability (AUC-ROC 0.77) and calibration on our dataset. We suggest the application of this model with a threshold of 6% to segment patients into low and high-risk groups before treatment planning. However, further data and external validation are warranted before clinical application.

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