Jones Bleddyn, Dale Roger G, Gaya Andrew M
Birmingham Cancer Centre, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Birmingham, UK.
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2006 Mar 1;64(3):948-53. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2005.10.016.
To extend linear quadratic theory to allow changes in normal-tissue radiation tolerance after exposure to cytotoxic chemotherapy, after surgery, and in elderly patients.
Examples of these situations are analyzed by use of the biologic effective dose (BED) concept. Changes in tolerance can be allowed for by: estimation of either the contribution of the additional factor as an equivalent BED or the equivalent dose in 2-Gy fractions or by the degree of radiosensitization by a mean dose-modifying factor (x).
The estimated x value is 1.063 (95% confidence limits for the mean, 1.056 to 1.070) for subcutaneous fibrosis after cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, and fluorouracil (CMF) chemotherapy and radiotherapy in breast cancer. The point estimate of x is 1.18 for the additional risk of gastrointestinal late-radiation effects after abdominal surgery in lymphoma patients (or 10.62 Gy at 2 Gy per fraction). For shoulder fibrosis in patients older than 60 years after breast and nodal irradiation, x is estimated to be 1.033 (95% confidence limits for the mean, 1.028 to 1.0385). The equivalent BED values were CMF chemotherapy (6.48 Gy3), surgery (17.73 Gy3), and age (3.61 Gy3).
The LQ model can, in principle, be extended to quantify reduced normal-tissue tolerance in special clinical situations.
