Quantifying the changes in the tumour vascular micro-environment in spinal metastases treated with stereotactic body radiotherapy - a single arm prospective study
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13 déc. 2022
À propos de cet article
Catégorie d'article: Research Article
Publié en ligne: 13 déc. 2022
Pages: 525 - 534
Reçu: 24 août 2022
Accepté: 29 sept. 2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/raon-2022-0046
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© 2022 Balamurugan Vellayappan, Dennis Cheong, Salil Singbal, Jeremy Tey, Yu Yang Soon, Cheng Nang Leong, Alvin Wong, Sein Lwin, Chau Hung Lee, Pravin Periasamy, Simon Lo, Naresh Kumar, published by Sciendo
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![(A) Representative images for Patient 7a showing at L1 with reduction in dynamic contrast enhanced (DCE) parameters [i] time-dependent leakage (Ktrans); [ii] permeability surface product (PS); [iii] fractional plasma volume (Vp); [iv] extracellular volume (Ve); and [v] perfusion (F) across the 3 time points.](https://sciendo-parsed.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/647356604e662f30ba53ab53/j_raon-2022-0046_fig_003.jpg?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6AP2G7AKOUXAVR44%2F20250915%2Feu-central-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250915T073639Z&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-Signature=893a421edc3ad1762d302bdb79e37af379a6c46ad41676fb4ee9619604482e76&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&x-amz-checksum-mode=ENABLED&x-id=GetObject)
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![(B) [i] Metastatic deposit in L1 vertebral body (yellow arrow), as shown on T1 Axial MR (with gadolinium contrast); [ii] stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) planning image (CT, MRI fused). SBRT 27 Gy in 3 fractions, delivered using volumetric modulated arc therapy. Clinical target volume (CTV) (blue outline), planning organ at risk volume (PRV)_cord (red outline), 95% isodose (orange colourwash).](https://sciendo-parsed.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/647356604e662f30ba53ab53/j_raon-2022-0046_fig_004.jpg?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6AP2G7AKOUXAVR44%2F20250915%2Feu-central-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250915T073639Z&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-Signature=2f22afb5e9b6468bc77a7f6cac4dbebc41a885b021209b5f1277a751fea07e00&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&x-amz-checksum-mode=ENABLED&x-id=GetObject)
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Inclusion and exclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria | Exclusion criteria | ||
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1. | Age ≥ 21 years | 1. | Metastatic haematological and germ cell neoplasms |
2. | Proven metastatic disease | 2. | Inability to undergo MRI or receive gadolinium contrast |
3. | Life expectancy > 3 months | 3. | Prior radiotherapy to region of interest |
4. | Eastern Cooperative Oncology group (ECOG) 0–2 | 4. | Recent immediate surgery surgical to affected intervention spinal levels, or patients requiring |
5. | ≤ 3 contiguous vertebral body segments, including para-spinal disease | 5. | Spinal instability score (SINS) > 12 |
6. | Able to lie supine for ≥ 60 minutes | 6. | Symptomatic cord compression (Bilksy grade 2 or 3), or worsening neurological deficits |
Clinical outcomes
Patient ID | (Change Post-SBRT from VAS pre- SBRT baseline) | Acute toxicity | Late toxicity | Response at 3 months assessment (MD Anderson criteria) | Follow-up duration (months) | Local recurrence at last follow-up | Status of patient at last follow-up |
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1 | 0 (-8) | G1 esophagitis | Nil | PR | 39 | No | Dead |
2 | 0 (-3) | Nil | Nil | PR | 54 | Yes | Alive |
3 | 0 (-5) | Nil | G1 compression fracture | PR | 50 | No | Alive |
4 | 0 (-8) | G1 esophagitis | Nil | SD | 15 | No | Dead |
5 | 3 (-3) | G1 esophagitis | Nil | PR | 22 | No | Dead |
6 | 0 (-3) | Nil | Nil | SD | 13 | No | Dead |
7a | 2 (-5) | Nil | G1 compression fracture | PR | 42 | No | Alive |
7b | 2 (-5) | Nil | Nil | PR | 42 | No | Alive |
8a | - | Nil | N/A | - | N/A | N/A | Dead |
8b | - | Nil | N/A | - | N/A | N/A | Dead |
8c | - | Nil | N/A | - | N/A | N/A | Dead |
9 | 0 | Nil | G3 compression fracture | SD | 37 | No | Alive |
10 | 0 (-3) | Nil | Nil | PR | 22 | No | Alive |
Patient characteristics
Patient ID | Age | Gender | Primary histology | Level of spinal metastases | Extraspinal disease site | Baseline analgesia requirement: opioid/non- opioid/nil | Prior chemotherapy | anti-Prior VEGF therapy | Prior immunotherapy | ECOG | treatment Pre- VAS | SINS | Indication | SBRT |
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Dose (Gy) | Fractions | ||||||||||||||
69 | M | RCC | C1 | Lung | Non-opioid | No | No | Yes | 1 | 8 | 6 | Radioresistant histology, pain control | 24 | 3 | |
60 | M | RCC | S1 | Nil | Nil | No | No | No | 0 | 3 | 3 | Oligometatasis | 27 | 3 | |
60 | M | NSCLC-EGFR - | T5 | Brain, lung bone. | Nil | Yes | No | No | 1 | 5 | 6 | Oligometastasis | 24 | 3 | |
62 | F | NSCLC-EGFR - | C5 | Brain, bone nodal, | Opioid | No | No | No | 1 | 8 | 7 | Oligometastasis, pain control | 24 | 2 | |
75 | M | adenocarcinoma Prostate | T1 | Bone | Nil | No | No | No | 1 | 6 | 5 | Oligometastasis | 24 | 3 | |
62 | M | adenocarcinoma Colon | L1 | LN, lung | Nil | Yes | No | No | 1 | 3 | 9 | Oligometastasis | 27 | 3 | |
52 | M | RCC | L1 | Bone | Opioid | No | No | Yes | 1 | 7 | 7 | Radioresistant histology, pain control | 27* | 3* | |
52 | M | RCC | L2 | Bone | Opioid | No | No | Yes | 1 | 7 | 7 | Radioresistant histology, pain control | 27* | 3* | |
69 | F | NSCLC-EGFR + | T1 | Brain, lung bone. | Non-Opioid | No | No | Yes | 1 | 3 | 5 | Oligometastasis | 24 | 3 | |
69 | F | NSCLC-EGFR + | T10 | Brain, lung bone. | Non-Opioid | No | No | Yes | 1 | 3 | 4 | Oligometastasis | 27* | 3* | |
69 | F | NSCLC-EGFR + | T12 | Brain, lung bone. | Non-Opioid | No | No | Yes | 1 | 3 | 6 | Oligometastasis | 27 | 3 | |
51 | F | ductal Breast carcinoma Invasive | T4 | Nil | Nil | Yes | No | No | 1 | 0 | 2 | Oligometastasis | 27 | 3 | |
72 | M | adenocarcinoma Prostate | L3 | Nil | Nil | No | No | No | 2 | 3 | 2 | Oligometastasis | 24 | 2 |