Analysis of interfractional variations of bladder volume along the course of Prostate irradiation | ||||
| ARCADEs of MEDICINE | ||||
| Volume 3, Issue 1, April 2025, Page 1-13 PDF (657.47 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Observational Studies | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/arcmed.2024.344006.1072 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
Mohamed Abou Elfetouh Shehata1; Khaled Mohamed El Shahat2; Medhat Ishak Saleh  3; Radwa Mohamed Hamed4
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| 1Clinical Oncology Head of Clinical Oncology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Menoufia University, Egypt. | ||||
| 2Medical Radiation Physics, Armed Forces College of Medicine, Cairo, Egypt. | ||||
| 3Radiation oncology Department, Armed Forces College of Medicine, Cairo, Egypt. | ||||
| 4Clinical Oncology, Armed Forces College of Medicine, Cairo, Egypt. | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Background: Pelvic irradiation is used for early stages or locally advanced pelvic tumors as cervical, endometrial or prostatic cancers The bladder is a muscular hollow organ that expand and contract on daily basis, change in size during radiotherapy course along with displacement of adjacent organs is a major challenge for accurate dose delivery The variations in bladder volume through the course of treatment is observed [3]. Methods: A cross-section study was conducted in International Medical Center in Egypt in 2022 including a total of 20 patients with localized prostate cancer and planned for radiotherapy and a total of 5 CBCT for each patient were selected and registered to planning system for delineation of organs at risk and dosimetry calculation done on the same original plan to be a representative of the change in volumes and dose to organs at risk and the change in target coverage during the course of treatment Results : There was a decline in the mean bladder volume generally along the course of treatment, the mean bladder volume was 210.98CC in the plan CT versus 196 ml, 196 ml, 215 ml , 198 ml, 202 ml in CBCT consecutively , However, there was no significant change in dosimetry of Target volume or organs at risk. Conclusion: In comfortable bladder protocol Inter-fractional variation in pelvic organs was not significant and didn’t make significant change to target volume coverage or violate dose constraints of organs at risk | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Bladder; cone Beam CT; inter fractional variation; prostate; radiotherapy | ||||
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