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Advanced Technology in Radiotherapy: How can we ensure benefit for patients?
Tomas KronMedical Physicist
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
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Possible Conflict of Interest
• I am a board member of the Transtasman Radiation Oncology Group
• I am an advisor to the Australian Clinical Dosimetry Service at ARPANSA
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Contents
• What is advanced technology in radiotherapy?• IMRT• IGRT
• Why would a patient be interested in these?
• How can we introduce them efficiently and safely?
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Local control
Excellent dose distribution
Delivery of radiation
Identification of the target
Verifying delivery
IGRTIMRT
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Traditional Radiation Therapy
Courtesy of J SchreinerTarget
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Conformal Radiation Therapy
Target
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Conformal Radiation Therapy
TargetMulti-leaf
collimator (MLC)
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Why more than conformal?
Organ at risk
target
patient
RT beams
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Why more than conformal?
Organ at risk
target
patient
RT beams
Beam fluenceprofile
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Conformal Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT)
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What characterizes an IMRT treatment?
• Many different MLC leaf positions (>10) for many gantry angles (>5)
• Field placement accuracy better than 2mm• Segment size
down to 1cm• More than 10000
leaf positions• Not intuitive
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What is in it for patients?
• Better normal tissue sparing
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What is in it for patients?
• Better normal tissue sparing - less toxicity• Possibly higher dose to the target - higher
chance of cure• More dose in a
fraction - fewer fractions
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Is there clinical evidence for the use of IMRT?
Lancet Oncology 9 (2008) 367
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Achievable dose distributions
ThyroidCalvarialradiation
Vertebral bodyBauman et al 2007
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What are the draw backs?
• More complexity• Need for new (and
more accurate) equipment
• More need for QA• Longer treatment
times• Higher risk of
geographical miss
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Local control
Excellent dose distribution
Delivery of radiation
Identification of the target
Verifying delivery
IGRTIMRT
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Image Guidance• First X-ray in Australia
(July 25, 1896)• Bathurst: Father Slattery
takes image of Eric Thomson’s hand.
• Eric Thomson had accidentally be wounded by a spring gun
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Image guidance for RT• At the time of delivery• Must visualize the
target (or relevant organ at risk)
• Must also provide information on radiation fields (egisocentre) 3 gold fiducials implanted
into the prostate gland
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Image guidance tools on many linacs
• Visualization tools:• External (Lasers, markers)• Optical surface systems• Internal (Seeds)• EPID, portal imaging • kV imaging• CT
• Cone beam CT• CT on rails• MVCT
• US • MRI?
Varian Trilogy US
On-boardimaging
Cone beamCT
EPID
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Other X-ray image guidance solutions
Siemens in-room CT
Brainlab Exactrac
Protons at PSITomotherapy MVCT
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What can we do with the images?
• Detect systematic error• Position the patient,
target, or organ at risk• Modify the treatment
plan or choose an appropriate plan
• Detect changes in patient or tumour size
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Internal anatomy is changing
Start of treatment
7 days later
2 weeks later
3 weeks later
1 month later
Courtesy of Tim Holmes, St. Agnes Cancer Center, Baltimore, MD
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Local control
Excellent dose distribution
Delivery of radiation
Identification of the target
Verifying delivery
IGRTIMRT
Re-optimising
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Why would a patient be interested in this?
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Obvious?
Intuition/Obvious
Complexity
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Obvious Evidence?
Intuition/Obvious
Complexity
Bland vssharp scalpel
Parachute or not
Many drugs
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IMRT/IGRT• Is the outcome always
obvious or predictable by other means?
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Obvious Evidence?
Intuition/Obvious
Complexity
IGRT? IMRT?
plantreatment
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Is it ethical to run a trial?• Can we ‘randomise’ patients
to receive • Conventional RT or IMRT? • Non-gated or gated RT
• What would I choose?• Expected participation?
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Why should it not work?
• Any hidden problems?• Who can benefit?• Can it be implemented
widely? Access?• Too complicated? • Too expensive?
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Can we trust what we see?
• We know:• The dose distribution
LOOKS better
• We may want to know:• Is what we see what we
get?• Is it safe, feasible and
widely applicable?• Is it resource effective
(cost/benefit)?
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Is what we see what we get?
• Quality assurance• Independent audit• Documentation of
outcomes
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Radiological Physics Centre (Houston): Trial QA using phantoms
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RPC: Phantom ResultsComparison between institution’s plan and delivered dose.
Criteria for agreement: 7% or 4 mm DTA (5%/5mm for lung)
Courtesy G Ibbott, April 2009
Site Institutions Irradia-tions Pass rate
H&N 472 631 75%
Pelvis 108 130 82%
Lung 67 77 71%
Liver 15 18 50%
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The dose bath...• Due to increased mu per
Gray there is more leakage• Due to more beams dose is
spread over larger volume• Temptation to use conformal
avoidance to spread high dose in critical structure somewhere else
David
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Estimate of risk for secondary cancers (Hall 2006)
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Is it ethical (not) to run a trial?• Can we ‘randomise’ patients
to receive • Conventional RT or IMRT? • Non-gated or gated RT
• What would I choose?• Expected participation?
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Elements of introducing new technology• Needs analysis• Multidisciplinary team• Learning from others• Procedures/protocols• Quality assurance• Evaluation�
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Training (here for adaptive RT for bladder cancer)
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Proceed with caution…
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Proceed with caution…
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Summary• Radiotherapy practice relies on
technology• There is good reason to believe
that improved technology will benefit patients
• There is a large variety of different approaches
• Multidisciplinary collaboration, training, quality assurance and discussion is needed
• Clinical trials are a method to test some aspects of technology
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Acknowledgements• Boon Chua, Jim Cramb,
David Ball, Penny Fogg, Chris Fox, Annette Haworth, Farshad Foroudi, Eric Nguyen, Rebecca Owen, Paul Roxby, Andrea Paneghel, May Whitaker, Scott Williams, Trevor Leong, Rebecca Owen, Sarah Everitt, Claire Fitzpatrick, Trish Hubbard, David Willis, Aldo Rolfo, Gill Duchesne and many more
• Collaborative research agreements with Varian and Siemens