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Nugent TS, Low EZ, Fahy MR, Donlon NE, McCormick PH, Mehigan BJ, Cunningham M, Gillham C, Kavanagh DO, Kelly ME, Larkin JO. Prostate radiotherapy and the risk of secondary rectal cancer-a meta-analysis. Int J Colorectal Dis 2022; 37:437-447. [PMID: 35037077 DOI: 10.1007/s00384-021-04075-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/25/2021] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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PURPOSE Radiotherapy is being used increasingly in the treatment of prostate cancer. However, ionising radiation may confer a small risk of a radiation-induced secondary malignancy. We aim to assess the risk of rectal cancer following pelvic radiotherapy for prostate cancer. METHODS A search was conducted of the PubMed/MEDLINE, EMBASE and Web of Science databases identifying studies reporting on the risk of rectal cancer following prostatic radiotherapy. Studies must have included an appropriate control group of non-irradiated prostate cancer patients. A meta-analysis was performed to assess the risk of prostatic radiotherapy on subsequent rectal cancer diagnosis. RESULTS In total, 4757 articles were screened with eight studies meeting the predetermined criteria. A total of 796,386 patients were included in this meta-analysis which showed an increased odds ratio (OR) for subsequent rectal cancer in prostate cancer patients treated with radiotherapy compared to those treated by non-radiotherapy means (OR 1.45, 1.07-1.97, p = 0.02). CONCLUSION These findings confirm that prostate radiotherapy significantly increases the risk of subsequent rectal cancer. This risk has implications for treatment selection, surveillance and patient counselling. However, it is crucial that this information is presented in a rational and comprehensible manner that does not disproportionately frighten or deter patients from what might be their most suitable treatment modality.
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- Timothy S Nugent
- Department of Colorectal Surgery, St James's Hospital, Dublin 8, Ireland.
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- Department of Colorectal Surgery, St James's Hospital, Dublin 8, Ireland
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- Department of Colorectal Surgery, St James's Hospital, Dublin 8, Ireland
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- Department of Colorectal Surgery, St James's Hospital, Dublin 8, Ireland
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- Department of Colorectal Surgery, St James's Hospital, Dublin 8, Ireland
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- Department of Colorectal Surgery, St James's Hospital, Dublin 8, Ireland
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- Department of Radiotherapy, St James's Hospital, Dublin 8, Ireland
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- Department of Radiotherapy, St James's Hospital, Dublin 8, Ireland
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- Department of Colorectal Surgery, St James's Hospital, Dublin 8, Ireland
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- Department of Colorectal Surgery, St James's Hospital, Dublin 8, Ireland
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- Department of Colorectal Surgery, St James's Hospital, Dublin 8, Ireland
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Nithiyananthan K, Creighton N, Currow D, Martin JM. Population-Level Uptake of Moderately Hypofractionated Definitive Radiation Therapy in the Treatment of Prostate Cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2021; 111:417-423. [PMID: 33974884 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2021.04.033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2021] [Revised: 04/14/2021] [Accepted: 04/23/2021] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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PURPOSE Recent evidence shows the noninferiority of hypofractionated radiation therapy regimens compared with conventional regimens in the treatment of prostate cancer (PCa). Hypofractionation has benefits for both the patient and health care system, because of the shorter treatment duration. Despite this advantage, the uptake of hypofractionation can be slow. Here we investigate the factors influencing the changing use of moderate hypofractionation (HypoRT) for the treatment of PCa. METHODS AND MATERIALS We conducted a population-based, retrospective, consecutive cohort study using the 2014 to 2018 Outpatient Radiation Oncology Data from public and private treatment facilities in New South Wales, Australia. Included participants had a PCa diagnosis of any risk, and they completed curative-intent external beam radiation therapy without treatment to lymph nodes. Factors potentially affecting use of HypoRT were examined using a 3-level hierarchical logistic regression model. The effects were reported using adjusted, median, or interval odds ratios. RESULTS The study included 4915 patients. Of these, 4053 patients (82.5%) received conventional fractionation, and 862 patients (17.5%) received HypoRT. HypoRT utilization increased from 5.2% in 2014 to 40.3% in 2018. The treating radiation oncologist, treatment facility, and increasing distance to treatment centers had the greatest influence on HypoRT uptake. The main limitation was the lack of stratification by PCa risk categorization. CONCLUSIONS Although HypoRT uptake has considerably increased between 2014 and 2018, it remains variable among facilities and treating radiation oncologists. Strategies are being explored to reduce inter-clinician variability.
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- Kajanan Nithiyananthan
- School of Medicine and Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medicine, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia
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- School of Medicine and Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medicine, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia; Department of Radiation Oncology, Calvary Mater Newcastle, Waratah, Australia.
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Zhang R, Li F, Wang Y, Yao M, Chi C. Prognostic value of microRNA-20b expression level in patients with prostate cancer. Histol Histopathol 2020; 35:827-831. [PMID: 32286677 DOI: 10.14670/hh-18-216] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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BACKGROUND miR-20b is a member of the miR-106a-363 gene cluster located in the mammalian X chromosome, the larger miR-17 family, and the miR-17-92 and miR-106b-25 gene clusters. Previous studies have indicated that miR-20b may function as oncogene or tumor suppressor in different types of cancers. The present study analyzed the association between miR-20b and clinicopathological characteristics of patients with prostate cancer. METHODS A total of 127 pairs of prostate cancer tissue samples and adjacent prostate tissue samples were collected from April 2013 to March 2018. The associations between miR-20b expression levels and clinicopathological factors were assessed using the χ2‑test. Survival was estimated using the Kaplan-Meier method, and the differences in survival according to miR-20b expression were compared using the log-rank test. Prognostic values of miR-20b expression and clinical outcomes were evaluated by Cox regression analysis. RESULTS The relative expression of miR-20b in prostate cancer tissues was significantly higher than that in adjacent noncancerous prostate tissues (P<0.001). miR-20b expression was observed to be significantly associated with Gleason score (P<0.001), lymph node metastasis (P<0.001), and TNM stage (P=0.002). The log-rank test indicated that patients with increased miR-20b expression experienced poor overall survival (P=0.037). Multivariate Cox regression analysis showed that miR-20b expression level (HR=2.181, 95% CI: 1.772-9.021, P=0.016) was an independent factor in predicting the overall survival of prostate cancer patients. CONCLUSION The present study demonstrated that tissue miR-20b expression level could be a promising biomarker of prognosis in prostate cancer.
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- Rongkui Zhang
- Department of Radiology, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, PR China
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- Operating Room, China-Japan Union Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, PR China
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- Department of Magnetic Resonance, Jilin Province FAW General Hospital, Changchun, Jilin, PR China
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- Department of Radiology, Jilin Cancer Hospital, Changchun, Jilin, PR China
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- Department of Urology Surgery, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, PR China.
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Keall P, Nguyen DT, O'Brien R, Hewson E, Ball H, Poulsen P, Booth J, Greer P, Hunter P, Wilton L, Bromley R, Kipritidis J, Eade T, Kneebone A, Hruby G, Moodie T, Hayden A, Turner S, Arumugam S, Sidhom M, Hardcastle N, Siva S, Tai KH, Gebski V, Martin J. Real-Time Image Guided Ablative Prostate Cancer Radiation Therapy: Results From the TROG 15.01 SPARK Trial. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2020; 107:530-538. [PMID: 32234553 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2020.03.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2019] [Revised: 03/09/2020] [Accepted: 03/11/2020] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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PURPOSE Kilovoltage intrafraction monitoring (KIM) is a novel software platform implemented on standard radiation therapy systems and enabling real-time image guided radiation therapy (IGRT). In a multi-institutional prospective trial, we investigated whether real-time IGRT improved the accuracy of the dose patients with prostate cancer received during radiation therapy. METHODS AND MATERIALS Forty-eight patients with prostate cancer were treated with KIM-guided SABR with 36.25 Gy in 5 fractions. During KIM-guided treatment, the prostate motion was corrected for by either beam gating with couch shifts or multileaf collimator tracking. A dose reconstruction method was used to evaluate the dose delivered to the target and organs at risk with and without real-time IGRT. Primary outcome was the effect of real-time IGRT on dose distributions. Secondary outcomes included patient-reported outcomes and toxicity. RESULTS Motion correction occurred in ≥1 treatment for 88% of patients (42 of 48) and 51% of treatments (121 of 235). With real-time IGRT, no treatments had prostate clinical target volume (CTV) D98% dose 5% less than planned. Without real-time IGRT, 13 treatments (5.5%) had prostate CTV D98% doses 5% less than planned. The prostate CTV D98% dose with real-time IGRT was closer to the plan by an average of 1.0% (range, -2.8% to 20.3%). Patient outcomes showed no change in the 12-month patient-reported outcomes compared with baseline and no grade ≥3 genitourinary or gastrointestinal toxicities. CONCLUSIONS Real-time IGRT is clinically effective for prostate cancer SABR.
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- Paul Keall
- ACRF Image X Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
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- ACRF Image X Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia; School of Biomedical Engineering, University of Technology, Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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- ACRF Image X Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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- ACRF Image X Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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- ACRF Image X Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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- Department of Oncology and Danish Center for Particle Therapy, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Northern Sydney Cancer Centre, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, Australia; School of Physics, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Calvary Mater Newcastle Hospital, Newcastle, Australia; University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Calvary Mater Newcastle Hospital, Newcastle, Australia
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Calvary Mater Newcastle Hospital, Newcastle, Australia
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- Northern Sydney Cancer Centre, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, Australia
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- Northern Sydney Cancer Centre, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, Australia
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- Northern Sydney Cancer Centre, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, Australia; Northern Clinical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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- Northern Sydney Cancer Centre, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, Australia; Northern Clinical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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- Northern Sydney Cancer Centre, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, Australia; Northern Clinical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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- Crown Princess Mary Cancer Centre, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia
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- Crown Princess Mary Cancer Centre, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia
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- Crown Princess Mary Cancer Centre, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia
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- Liverpool and Macarthur Cancer Therapy Centres, Liverpool Hospital, Sydney, Australia
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- Liverpool and Macarthur Cancer Therapy Centres, Liverpool Hospital, Sydney, Australia
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- Department of Physical Sciences, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia; Institute of Medical Physics, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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- Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, University of Melbourne, Australia
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- Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, University of Melbourne, Australia
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- NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Calvary Mater Newcastle Hospital, Newcastle, Australia; University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia
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Adame González C, Álvarez Romero JT, Morachel Y Rodríguez M, Félix Leyva A, Ponce Viveros M, Villavicencio Queijeiro MA, Bautista Hernández MYB, Gracia-Medrano Valdemar L. Biochemical relapse free survival rate in patients with prostate cancer treated with external radiotherapy: outcomes obtained at the CMN Siglo XXI Hospital de Oncología, CMN 20 de Noviembre and Hospital General de México of the México City. Rep Pract Oncol Radiother 2020; 25:276-281. [PMID: 32140086 DOI: 10.1016/j.rpor.2020.02.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2019] [Revised: 12/06/2019] [Accepted: 02/19/2020] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Aim Biochemical relapse-free survival (bRFS) rate is determined by a cohort of Mexican patients (n = 595) with prostate cancer who received treatment with external radiotherapy. Background Patients with prostate cancer were collected from CMN Siglo XXI (IMSS), CMN 20 de Noviembre (ISSSTE), and Hospital General de México (HGM). For the IMSS, 173 patients that are treated with three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy (3D-CRT) and 250 with SBRT, for the ISSSTE 57 patients are treated with 3D-CRT and on the HGM 115 patients are managed with intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT). The percentage of patients by risk group is: low 11.1%, intermediate 35.1% and high 53.8%. The average follow-up is 39 months, and the Phoenix criterion was used to determine the bRFS. Materials and methods The Kaplan-Meier technique for the construction of the survival curves and, the Cox proportional hazards to model the cofactors. Results (a) The bRFS rates obtained are 95.9% for the SBRT (7 Gy fx, IMSS), 94.6% for the 3D-CRT (1.8 Gy fx, IMSS), 91.3% to the 3D-CRT (2.65 Gy fx, IMSS), 89.1% for the SBRT (7.25 Gy fx, IMSS), 88.7% for the IMRT (1.8 Gy fx, HGM) %, and 87.7% for the 3D-CRT (1.8 Gy fx, ISSSTE). (b) There is no statistically significant difference in the bRFS rates by fractionation scheme, c) Although the numerical difference in the bRFS rate per risk group is 95.5%, 93.8% and 89.1% for low, intermediate and high risk, respectively, these are not statistically significant. Conclusions The RT techniques for the treatment of PCa are statistically equivalent with respect to the bRFS rate. This paper confirms that the bRFS rates of Mexican PCa patients who were treated with conventional vs. hypofractionated schemes do not differ significantly.
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- Christian Adame González
- Departamento de Física Médica, Centro Médico Nacional 20 de Noviembre, Av. Félix Cuevas 540, Col. Del Valle, 03229 Ciudad de México, Mexico.,Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Escuela Superior de Física y Matemáticas, Av. Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Col. San Pedro Zacatenco, 07738 Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Escuela Superior de Física y Matemáticas, Av. Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Col. San Pedro Zacatenco, 07738 Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Departamento de Radioterapia, Hospital de Oncología, Centro Médico Nacional, Siglo XXI, Av. Cuauhtémoc 330, Col. Doctores, 06720 Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Departamento de Radioterapia, Hospital de Oncología, Centro Médico Nacional, Siglo XXI, Av. Cuauhtémoc 330, Col. Doctores, 06720 Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Instituto de Investigaciones en Matemáticas Aplicadas y en Sistemas, Circuito Escolar 3000, C.U., 04510 Ciudad de México, Mexico
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Catton C, Lukka H. The evolution of fractionated prostate cancer radiotherapy. Lancet 2019; 394:361-362. [PMID: 31227371 DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(19)31338-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2019] [Accepted: 05/30/2019] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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- Charles Catton
- University of Toronto Department of Radiation Oncology, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON M5G 2M9, Canada.
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- McMaster University and Juravinski Cancer Centre, Hamilton, ON, Canada
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David J, Kamrava M. Prostate Cancer Radiotherapy: An Evolving Paradigm That Should Also Include High-Dose-Rate Monotherapy. J Clin Oncol 2019; 37:441. [DOI: 10.1200/jco.18.01482] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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- John David
- John David, MD and Mitchell Kamrava, MD, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
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- John David, MD and Mitchell Kamrava, MD, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
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