Organ sparing potential and inter-fraction robustness of adaptive intensity modulated proton therapy for lung cancer.

Conclusion: Robust-planned IMPT required re-planning more often than VMAT but resulted in similar accumulated ICTV coverage. With IMPT, heart and lung mean dose values and low dose regions were significantly reduced. Substantial cardiac sparing was obtained in a subgroup of five patients (28%).
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Source: Acta Oncologica - September 25, 2019 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: van der Laan HP, Anakotta RM, Korevaar EW, Dieters M, Ubbels JF, Wijsman R, Sijtsema NM, Both S, Langendijk JA, Muijs CT, Knopf AC Tags: Acta Oncol Source Type: research