Dummy Run of Quality Assurance Program before Prospective Study of Hippocampus-Sparing Whole-Brain Radiotherapy and Simultaneous Integrated Boost for Multiple Brain Metastases from Non-small Cell Lung Cancer: Korean Radiation Oncology Group (KROG) 17-06 Study
- Authors
- Chung, Eunah; Noh, Jae Myoung; Lee, Kyu Chan; Kim, Jin Hee; Chung, Weon Kuu; Suh, Yang-Gun; Lee, Jung Ae; Seol, Ki Ho; Wu, Hong Gyun; Kim, Yeon Sil; Noh, O. Kyu; Park, Jae Won; Lee, Dong Soo; Lee, Jihae; Kim, Young Suk; Park, Woo-Yoo; Kang, Min Kyu; Jo, Sunmi; Ahn, Yong Chan
- Issue Date
- Jul-2019
- Publisher
- KOREAN CANCER ASSOCIATION
- Keywords
- Hippocampus-sparing whole brain radiotherapy; Dummy run; Multi-institutional study; QA program; Non-small cell lung cancer
- Citation
- CANCER RESEARCH AND TREATMENT, v.51, no.3, pp.1001 - 1010
- Journal Title
- CANCER RESEARCH AND TREATMENT
- Volume
- 51
- Number
- 3
- Start Page
- 1001
- End Page
- 1010
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/gachon/handle/2020.sw.gachon/1297
- DOI
- 10.4143/crt.2018.415
- ISSN
- 1598-2998
- Abstract
- Purpose Lung Cancer Subcommittee of Korean Radiation Oncology Group (KROG) has recently launched a prospective clinical trial (KROG 17-06) of hippocampus-sparing whole brain radiotherapy (HS-WBRT) with simultaneous integrated boost (SIB) in treating multiple brain metastases from non-small cell lung cancer. In order to improve trial quality, dummy run studies among the participating institutions were designed. This work reported the results of two-step dummy run procedures of the KROG 17-06 study. Materials and Methods Two steps tested hippocampus contouring variability and radiation therapy planning compliance. In the first step, the variation of the hippocampus delineation was investigated for two representative cases using the Dice similarity coefficients. In the second step, the participating institutions were requested to generate a HS-WBRT with SIB treatment plan for another representative case. The compliance of the treatment plans to the planning protocol was evaluated. Results In the first step, the median Dice similarity coefficients of the hippocampus contours for two other dummy run cases changed from 0.669 (range, 0.073 to 0.712) to 0.690 (range, 0.522 to 0.750) and from 0.291 (range, 0.219 to 0.522) to 0.412 (range, 0.264 to 0.598) after providing the hippocampus contouring feedback. In the second step, with providing additional plan priority and extended dose constraints to the target volumes and normal structures, we observed the improved compliance of the treatment plans to the planning protocol. Conclusion The dummy run studies demonstrated the notable inter-institutional variability in delineating the hippocampus and treatment plan generation, which could be decreased through feedback from the trial center.
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