How to contour the different heart subregions for future deep-learning modeling of the heart: A practical pictorial proposal for radiation oncologists.

There are currently no accurate rules for manually delineating the subregions of the heart (cavities, vessels, aortic/mitral valves, Planning organ at Risk Volumes for coronary arteries) with the perspective of deep-learning based modeling. Our objective was to present a practical pictorial view for radiation oncologists, based on the RTOG atlas and anatomical complementary considerations for the cases where the RTOG guidelines are missing.

Dose escalation by brachytherapy for gynecological cancers.

Brachytherapy (BT), a type of focal cancer radiation therapy, delivers a highly focused dose of radiation to localized tumors, sparing surrounding normal tissue. Brachytherapy has been used to treat gynecologic malignancies, particularly cervical cancer, for over 100 years. From the first gynecologic brachytherapy treatments in the early 20th century to the modern era, significant transformations have taken place, largely due to advances in technology.

High-dose chemotherapy followed by whole lung irradiation in pulmonary relapse Ewing's sarcomas: a retrospective multicenter study.

Objective: Regarding the efficiency of Bu-Mel-based high-dose-chemotherapy (Bu-Mel-HDCT) and whole lung irradiation (WLI), the objective was to evaluate the efficiency and safety of this salvage sequence in Ewing sarcoma (ES) lung relapses.

Methods: All eligible pediatric ES patients (1991-2020) identified in SFCE departments were retrospectively reviewed. Seven patients were (1) diagnosed with a pulmonary relapse, isolated or not, (2) naïve from both HCDT and WLI (3) treated by the salvage sequence of conventional chemotherapy, Bu-Mel-HDCT and WLI.

Discontinuous stereotactic body radiotherapy schedule increases overall survival in early-stage non-small cell lung cancer.

Objectives: The duration of stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) for early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) may affect patient outcomes. We aimed to determine the impact of a continuous versus discontinuous SBRT schedule on local control (LC) and overall survival (OS) in NSCLC patients.

Materials And Methods: Consecutive NSCLC stage I patients (475) treated with SBRT in four centers were retrospectively analyzed.

Pretreatment F-FDG PET/CT Radiomics Predict Local Recurrence in Patients Treated with Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy for Early-Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Multicentric Study.

The aim of this retrospective multicentric study was to develop and evaluate a prognostic F-FDG PET/CT radiomic signature in early-stage non-small cell lung cancer patients treated with stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT). Patients from 3 different centers ( = 27, 29, and 8) were pooled to constitute the training set, whereas the patients from a fourth center ( = 23) were used as the testing set. The primary endpoint was local control.

Update in pediatric nasopharyngeal undifferentiated carcinoma.

Many of the principles established in adults with undifferentiated nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) apply to children, adolescents and young adults. However, NPC in young patients should be distinguished from the adult form by several points. This review focuses mainly on differences between adult and pediatric NPC.

[Circulating tumour DNA: Current detection methods, use in radiotherapy and future development].

Recent technological developments enable the detection and quantification of circulating tumour DNA in the blood, with potentially major clinical implications, particularly for cancers treated with curative intent. Circulating tumour DNA has a potential impact before, during and after treatment. If limitations of this approach remain, requiring further development, it is important to know the principles and applications in view of the potential impact on the clinical practice.

Statistical Shape Model to Generate a Planning Library for Cervical Adaptive Radiotherapy.

External beam radiotherapy is extensively used to treat cervical carcinomas. A single planning CT scan enables the calculation of the dose distribution. The treatment is delivered over five weeks.

[Dose constraints to organs at risk for conformational and stereotactic radiotherapy: Small bowel and duodenum].

Radiotherapy of abdominopelvic primary or secondary lesions in conformational or stereotactic techniques is in full development. The small bowel is highly sensitive to irradiation and is the main organ at risk limiting prescription doses. This literature review aims to define the dose constraints to the small bowel and the duodenum in conformational and stereotactic body radiotherapy.

[Doses to organs at risk for conformational and stereotactic radiotherapy: Bladder].

Bladder dose constraints in case of conformational radiotherapy/intensity-modulated radiotherapy and stereotactic radiotherapy are reported from the literature, in particular from the French radiotherapy society RECORAD recommendations, according to the treated pelvic tumor sites. The dose-volume effect on urinary toxicity is not clearly demonstrated, making difficult to establish absolute dose constraints for the bladder. In case of high-dose prostate cancer radiotherapy, the bladder dose constraints are: V60Gy<50% and maximum dose<80Gy for standard fractionation and V60Gy<5%, V48Gy<25% and V41Gy<50% for moderate hypofractionation (20 fractions of 3Gy).

[Clinical to planning target volume margins in prostate cancer radiotherapy].

The knowledge of inter- and intrafraction motion and deformations of the intrapelvic target volumes (prostate, seminal vesicles, prostatectomy bed and lymph nodes) as well as the main organs at risk (bladder and rectum) allow to define rational clinical to planning target volume margins, depending on the different radiotherapy techniques and their uncertainties. In case of image-guided radiotherapy, prostate margins and seminal vesicles margins can be between 5 and 10mm. The margins around the prostatectomy bed vary from 10 to 15mm and those around the lymph node clinical target volume between 7 and 10mm.

[Interest of positioning control in onboard imaging and its delegation to the therapists].

The delegation of the on board imaging position control, from the radiation oncologist to the therapist, is justified by the generalization of the image-guided radiotherapy techniques which are particularly time consuming. This delegation is however partial. Indeed, the validation of the position by the therapist can be clearly performed when the registration is based on bony landmark or fiducial.