cancer of the airways lung cancer
Conditions
Interventions
The treating clinician will decide if the plan will have to be modified in
accordance with the following criteria. Geometric displacement will always be
corrected. Reductions in field sizes for prim
Sponsors
Vrije Universiteit Medisch Centrum
Eligibility
Age
18 Years to 99 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Eligible patients who will undergo a 4DCT or 4DCT-PET planning scan, and in whom (i) a pre-treatment GTV can be identified and (ii) will receive a minimum dose of 46 Gy in 4 weeks
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Patients who will be irradiated after a complete response to chemotherapy or after a complete surgical resection
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1.To establish the proportion of patients in whom an initial radiotherapy plan does not provide similar or improved coverage on a repeat planning procedure after 15 fractions. 2. To indentify the characteristics of this sub-population of patients and design adaptiveimaging protocols to account for time trends. 3. Establish the magnitude of reduction in toxicity risk to lung and esophagus in patients for whom reductions in PTV are possible | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| nvt | — |
Countries
Netherlands
Outcome results
None listed