Abstract
The impact of radiation dose to the heart in early-stage lung cancer patients treated with definitive stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) is not well known. We, therefore, analyzed whether higher radiation dose to the heart would lead to an increase in cardiac toxicity and overall mortality. Seventy-four patients with 75 tumors treated definitively with SBRT for early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and two cases of limited-stage small cell lung cancer (SCLC) with an average follow-up of 35 months (range, 1-130 months) were retrospectively analyzed. The whole heart and cardiac substructures including atria, ventricles, heart valves, atrioventricular (AV) node and four major coronary artery branches were contoured using commercial treatment planning software. For each structure, multiple dose-volume parameters were recorded. The relation between radiation doses to the heart, tumor location, and preexisting medical conditions with the development of cardiac events and mortality was assessed. Overall, there was large variability in dose to cardiac substructures: mean heart dose (MHD) averaged 1.90 Gy (range, 0.04-11.00 Gy) equivalent 2 Gy dose (EQD2) and average max dose to the left anterior descending artery (LAD)...Continue Reading
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