A practical technique to avoid the hippocampus in prophylactic cranial irradiation for lung cancer

Zdenko van Kesteren; Jose Belderbos; Marcel van Herk; Agnieszka Olszewska; Emmy Lamers; Dirk De Ruysscher; Eugene Damen; Corine van Vliet-Vroegindeweij

doi:10.1016/j.radonc.2011.09.023

A practical technique to avoid the hippocampus in prophylactic cranial irradiation for lung cancer

Zdenko van Kesteren^*
, Jose Belderbos
, Marcel van Herk
, Agnieszka Olszewska
, Emmy Lamers
, Dirk De Ruysscher
, Eugene Damen
, Corine van Vliet-Vroegindeweij

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

A practical technique is presented to deliver hippocampus avoiding prophylactic cranial irradiation for lung cancer patients, using two lateral fields. For a prescribed dose of 12?2.5 Gy, sparing of the hippocampi to 6.1 Gy was achieved with a V95% of the brain of 81.7%.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	225-227
Number of pages	3
Journal	Radiotherapy and Oncology
Volume	102
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radonc.2011.09.023
Publication status	Published - Feb 2012

Keywords

NSCLC
PCI
Hippocampus avoiding PCI
Neuro-cognition

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