Acharya Adithya Vikrama, Hunugundmath Sanjay, Deputy Mariya, Nirhali Amit, Naik Vishram, Gadhave Sharad
Radiation Oncology, Sahyadri Superspeciality Hospital, Pune, IND.
Radiation Therapy, Sahyadri Superspeciality Hospital, Pune, IND.
Cureus. 2025 May 8;17(5):e83742. doi: 10.7759/cureus.83742. eCollection 2025 May.
Prostate cancer, when detected early, can be either actively observed or treated radically based on clinical, pathological, and imaging features. Radical treatment options include radical prostatectomy, radical radiation as external beam radiotherapy (EBRT), or brachytherapy. EBRT for prostate cancer can be given in different ways. It may be delivered in smaller doses over several weeks, known as conventionally fractionated radiation therapy (CF-RT), or in larger doses over fewer sessions, as in moderately hypofractionated radiotherapy and ultra hypofractionated radiotherapy, also known as stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT). Recent studies have shown that SBRT is non-inferior to CF-RT, and the National Comprehensive Cancer Network guidelines also suggest SBRT as a treatment option for localized disease. As SBRT uses a high dose per fraction for treatment, it requires a very tight margin around the planning target volume and intrafractional motion management to prevent the organs at risk from receiving a high dose and subsequent toxicities developing from it. In this case series, we report our clinical experience with prostate SBRT using the Radixact® X9 (Accuray, Sunnyvale, CA, United States) tomotherapy machine with Synchrony® fiducial tracking for real-time motion tracking and correction.
前列腺癌若早期发现,可根据临床、病理及影像特征进行积极观察或根治性治疗。根治性治疗方案包括根治性前列腺切除术、作为外照射放疗(EBRT)的根治性放疗或近距离放疗。前列腺癌的EBRT可采用不同方式给予。它可以在数周内以较小剂量给予,即传统分割放疗(CF-RT),或者在较少疗程内以较大剂量给予,如在中等程度的低分割放疗和超分割放疗中,也称为立体定向体部放疗(SBRT)。最近的研究表明,SBRT不劣于CF-RT,美国国立综合癌症网络指南也建议将SBRT作为局限性疾病的一种治疗选择。由于SBRT每次分割使用高剂量进行治疗,它需要在计划靶区周围有非常精确的边界以及进行分次内运动管理,以防止危及器官接受高剂量并由此产生后续毒性。在本病例系列中,我们报告了使用Radixact® X9(美国加利福尼亚州桑尼维尔市的Accuray公司生产)断层放疗机及Synchrony®基准跟踪技术进行实时运动跟踪和校正的前列腺SBRT临床经验。