Toxicity risk of non-target organs at risk receiving low-dose radiation: case report
Absatract The spine is the most common site for bone metastases. Radiation therapy is a common treatment for palliation of pain and for prevention or treatment of spinal cord compression. Helical tomotherapy (HT), a new image-guided intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT), delivers highly conformal dose distributions and provides an impressive ability to spare adjacent organs at risk, thus increasing the local control of spinal column metastases and decreasing the potential risk of critical organs under treatment. However, there are a lot of non-target organs at risk (OARs) occupied by low dose with underestimate in this modern rotational IMRT treatment. Herein, we report a case of a pathologic compression fracture of the T9 vertebra in a 55-year-old patient with cholangiocarcinoma. The patient underwent HT at a dose of 30 Gy/10 fractions delivered to T8-T10 for symptom relief. Two weeks after the radiotherapy had been completed, the first course of chemotherapy comprising gemcitabine, fluorouracil, and leucovorin was administered. After two weeks of chemotherapy, however, the patient developed progressive dyspnea. A computed tomography scan of the chest revealed an interstitial pattern with traction bronchiectasis, diffuse ground-glass opacities, and cystic change with fibrosis. Acute radiation pneumonitis was diagnosed. Oncologists should be alert to the potential risk of radiation toxicities caused by low dose off-targets and abscopal effects even with highly conformal radiotherapy..
| Medienart: |
E-Artikel |
|---|
| Erscheinungsjahr: |
2009 |
|---|---|
| Erschienen: |
2009 |
| Enthalten in: |
Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:4 |
|---|---|
| Enthalten in: |
Radiation oncology - 4(2009), 1 vom: 31. Dez. |
| Sprache: |
Englisch |
|---|
| Beteiligte Personen: |
Shueng, Pei-Wei [VerfasserIn] |
|---|
| Links: |
Volltext [lizenzpflichtig] |
|---|
| Themen: |
Gemcitabine |
|---|
| Anmerkungen: |
© Shueng et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2009. This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( |
|---|
| doi: |
10.1186/1748-717X-4-71 |
|---|
| funding: |
|
|---|---|
| Förderinstitution / Projekttitel: |
|
| PPN (Katalog-ID): |
SPR029567114 |
|---|
| LEADER | 01000caa a22002652 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | SPR029567114 | ||
| 003 | DE-627 | ||
| 005 | 20230519230448.0 | ||
| 007 | cr uuu---uuuuu | ||
| 008 | 201007s2009 xx |||||o 00| ||eng c | ||
| 024 | 7 | |a 10.1186/1748-717X-4-71 |2 doi | |
| 035 | |a (DE-627)SPR029567114 | ||
| 035 | |a (SPR)1748-717X-4-71-e | ||
| 040 | |a DE-627 |b ger |c DE-627 |e rakwb | ||
| 041 | |a eng | ||
| 100 | 1 | |a Shueng, Pei-Wei |e verfasserin |4 aut | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Toxicity risk of non-target organs at risk receiving low-dose radiation: case report |
| 264 | 1 | |c 2009 | |
| 336 | |a Text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |a Computermedien |b c |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |a Online-Ressource |b cr |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 500 | |a © Shueng et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2009. This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( | ||
| 520 | |a Absatract The spine is the most common site for bone metastases. Radiation therapy is a common treatment for palliation of pain and for prevention or treatment of spinal cord compression. Helical tomotherapy (HT), a new image-guided intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT), delivers highly conformal dose distributions and provides an impressive ability to spare adjacent organs at risk, thus increasing the local control of spinal column metastases and decreasing the potential risk of critical organs under treatment. However, there are a lot of non-target organs at risk (OARs) occupied by low dose with underestimate in this modern rotational IMRT treatment. Herein, we report a case of a pathologic compression fracture of the T9 vertebra in a 55-year-old patient with cholangiocarcinoma. The patient underwent HT at a dose of 30 Gy/10 fractions delivered to T8-T10 for symptom relief. Two weeks after the radiotherapy had been completed, the first course of chemotherapy comprising gemcitabine, fluorouracil, and leucovorin was administered. After two weeks of chemotherapy, however, the patient developed progressive dyspnea. A computed tomography scan of the chest revealed an interstitial pattern with traction bronchiectasis, diffuse ground-glass opacities, and cystic change with fibrosis. Acute radiation pneumonitis was diagnosed. Oncologists should be alert to the potential risk of radiation toxicities caused by low dose off-targets and abscopal effects even with highly conformal radiotherapy. | ||
| 650 | 4 | |a Gemcitabine |7 (dpeaa)DE-He213 | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Planning Target Volume |7 (dpeaa)DE-He213 | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Stereotactic Radiation Therapy |7 (dpeaa)DE-He213 | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Radiation Pneumonitis |7 (dpeaa)DE-He213 | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Helical Tomotherapy |7 (dpeaa)DE-He213 | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Lin, Shih-Chiang |4 aut | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Chang, Hou-Tai |4 aut | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Chong, Ngot-Swan |4 aut | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Chen, Yu-Jen |4 aut | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Wang, Li-Ying |4 aut | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Hsieh, Yen-Ping |4 aut | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Hsieh, Chen-Hsi |4 aut | |
| 773 | 0 | 8 | |i Enthalten in |t Radiation oncology |d London : BioMed Central, 2006 |g 4(2009), 1 vom: 31. Dez. |w (DE-627)SPR029551838 |w (DE-600)2224965-5 |x 1748-717X |7 nnns |
| 773 | 1 | 8 | |g volume:4 |g year:2009 |g number:1 |g day:31 |g month:12 |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | |u https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1748-717X-4-71 |z lizenzpflichtig |3 Volltext |
| 912 | |a GBV_USEFLAG_A | ||
| 912 | |a GBV_SPRINGER | ||
| 912 | |a SSG-OLC-PHA | ||
| 951 | |a AR | ||
| 952 | |d 4 |j 2009 |e 1 |b 31 |c 12 | ||