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Clinical Trial
. 2018 Oct 23;13(1):208.
doi: 10.1186/s13014-018-1147-2.

FDG and FMISO PET-guided dose escalation with intensity-modulated radiotherapy in lung cancer

Sébastien Thureau  1   2 , Bernard Dubray  3 , Romain Modzelewski  4 , Pierre Bohn  4 , Sébastien Hapdey  4 , Sabine Vincent  3 , Elodie Anger  3 , David Gensanne  3 , Nicolas Pirault  3 , Gouel Pierrick  4 , Pierre Vera  4
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FDG and FMISO PET-guided dose escalation with intensity-modulated radiotherapy in lung cancer

Sébastien Thureau et al. Radiat Oncol. .

Abstract

Background: Concomitant chemo-radiotherapy is the reference treatment for non-resectable locally-advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC). Increasing radiotherapy total dose in the whole tumour volume has been shown to be deleterious. Functional imaging with positron emission tomography (PET/CT) offers the potential to identify smaller and biologically meaningful target volumes that could be irradiated with larger doses without compromising Organs At Risk (OAR) tolerance. This study investigated four scenarios, based on 18FDG and 18F-miso PET/CT, to delineate the target volumes and derive radiotherapy plans delivering up to 74Gy.

Method: Twenty-one NSCLC patients, selected from a prospective phase II trial, had 18FDG- and 18F-miso PET/CT before the start of radiotherapy and 18FDG PET/CT during the radiotherapy (42Gy). The plans were based planned on a standard plan delivering 66 Gy (plan 1) and on three different boost strategies to deliver 74Gy total dose in pre-treatment 18FDG hotspot (70% of SUVmax) (plan 2), pre-treatment 18F-miso target (SUVmax > 1.4) (plan 3) and per-treatment 18FDG residual (40% of SUVmax). (plan 4).

Results: The mean target volumes were 4.8 cc (± 1.1) for 18FDG hotspot, 38.9 cc (± 14.5) for 18F-miso and 36.0 cc (± 10.1) for per-treatment 18FDG. In standard plan (66 Gy), the mean dose covering 95% of the PTV (D95%) were 66.5 (± 0.33), 66.1 (± 0.32) and 66.1 (± 0.32) Gy for 18FDG hotspot, 18F-miso and per-treatment 18FDG. In scenario 2, the mean D95% was 72.5 (± 0.25) Gy in 18FDG hotspot versus 67.9 (± 0.49) and 67.9 Gy (± 0.52) in 18F-miso and per-treatment 18FDG, respectively. In scenario 3, the mean D95% was 72.2 (± 0.27) Gy to 18F-miso versus 70.4 (± 0.74) and 69.5Gy (± 0.74) for 18FDG hotspot and per-treatment 18FDG, respectively. In scenario 4, the mean D95% was 73.1 (± 0.3) Gy to 18FDG per-treatment versus 71.9 (± 0.61) and 69.8 (± 0.61) Gy for 18FDG hotspot and 18F-miso, respectively. The dose/volume constraints to OARs were matched in all scenarios.

Conclusion: Escalated doses can be selectively planned in NSCLC target volumes delineated on 18FDG and 18F-miso PET/CT functional images. The most relevant strategy should be investigated in clinical trials.

Trial registration: (RTEP5, NCT01576796 , registered 15 june 2012).

Keywords: 18fluoro-deoxy-D-glucose; 18fluoro-misonidasole; Hypoxia; Lung cancer; Positron emission tomography; Radiotherapy.

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Study design. RTCT: radio-chemotherapy; TPS: Treatment Planning System
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Example of dosimetry. Representation of dose (95% to maximum dosi) fr reference plan (66Gy) and three scenario of planification based on PET. PTV are blue, hotspot (BTVm1) is red, FDG pre-RT (BTVm2) is orange and FMISO (BTVh) is dark blue. For each plan the PTV 66 is represented
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