Article
Oncology
Daan S. Spoor, Nanna M. Sijtsema, Veerle A. B. van den Bogaard, Arjen van der Schaaf, Charlotte L. Brouwer, Bastiaan D. P. Ta, Rozemarijn Vliegenthart, Roel G. J. Kierkels, Johannes A. Langendijk, John H. Maduro, Femke B. J. Peters, Anne P. G. Crijns
Summary: Developing NTCP-models for cardiac complications after breast cancer radiotherapy requires cardiac dose-volume parameters for many patients. Multi-atlas based automatic segmentation of cardiac structures in planning CT scans can provide these parameters. Separate multi-atlases for deep inspiration breath hold and free breathing CT scans may benefit atlas performance, as accuracy depends on breathing technique.
RADIOTHERAPY AND ONCOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Oncology
Yongkai Lu, Di Yang, Xiaowei Zhang, Yonggang Teng, Wei Yuan, Yuemei Zhang, Ruixin He, Fengwen Tang, Jie Pang, Bo Han, Ruijuan Chen, Yi Li
Summary: DIBH has shown significant advantages over FB in patients with left-sided breast cancer receiving radiotherapy, reducing heart, left anterior descending branch, and ipsilateral lung doses and volumes, while increasing ipsilateral lung volume.
FRONTIERS IN ONCOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Oncology
Loic Vander Veken, Genevieve Van Ooteghem, Ariane Razavi, Sergio Da Rita Quaresma, Eleonore Longton, Carine Kirkove, Benjamin Ledoux, Ad Vandermeulen, Christel Abdel Massih, Pascale Henderickx, Mortimer Gabriels, Celine Delvaux, Faycal Salah, Aude Vaandering, Xavier Geets
Summary: This study compared the effects of mechanically-induced DIBH and SGRT-guided voluntary DIBH in breast radiotherapy. The results showed that mechanically-induced DIBH performed better in protecting and repositioning critical organs while achieving similar target irradiation accuracy as SGRT.
RADIOTHERAPY AND ONCOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Alessandra Vendrame, Cristina Cappelletto, Paola Chiovati, Lorenzo Vinante, Masud Parvej, Angela Caroli, Giovanni Pirrone, Loredana Barresi, Annalisa Drigo, Michele Avanzo
Summary: Deep Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BLSTM) recurrent neural networks were used to predict eligibility for deep inspiration breath-hold (DIBH) radiotherapy treatment in patients with left breast cancer based on analysis of respiratory signals. The BLSTM-RNN accurately classified patients eligible for DIBH, achieving high accuracy, specificity, sensitivity, F1 score, and AUC in the test dataset. This provides promising results for the development of an accurate and robust decision system to assist the radiotherapy team in assigning patients to DIBH.
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
(2023)
Article
Oncology
Jule Wolf, Steffen Kurz, Thomas Rothe, Marco Serpa, Jutta Scholber, Thalia Erbes, Eleni Gkika, Dimos Baltas, Vivek Verma, David Krug, Ingolf Juhasz-Boess, Anca-Ligia Grosu, Nils H. Nicolay, Tanja Sprave
Summary: Radiotherapy using the deep inspiration breath-hold (DIBH) technique can effectively reduce heart and lung doses in left-sided breast cancer cases, but may also result in unintended dose exposure to regional lymph nodes.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Bruno Speleers, Max Schoepen, Francesca Belosi, Vincent Vakaet, Wilfried De Neve, Pieter Deseyne, Leen Paelinck, Tom Vercauteren, Michael J. Parkes, Tony Lomax, Annick Van Greveling, Alessandra Bolsi, Damien C. Weber, Liv Veldeman, Werner De Gersem
Summary: The use of deep inspiration breath hold and shallow breathing in the prone crawl position significantly reduces doses to the heart and lungs, leading to a decrease in mortality risk for different risk profiles of patients. Deep inspiration breath hold results in significant dose reductions for other organs-at-risk with photon radiotherapy, while minor differences are observed with proton radiotherapy.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2021)
Article
Oncology
Roberto Righetto, Francesco Fracchiolla, Lamberto Widesott, Stefano Lorentini, Francesco Dionisi, Barbara Rombi, Daniele Scartoni, Sabina Vennarini, Marco Schwarz, Paolo Farace
Summary: This study comprehensively describes the treatment of mediastinal lymphoma using pencil beam scanning (PBS) proton therapy. The results show that intensity-modulated proton therapy (IMPT) is effective and reproducible in treating mediastinal lymphomas, while caution is needed to ensure robust dose delivery to high-risk regions at the interface between lungs and soft tissue.
RADIOTHERAPY AND ONCOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Oncology
Yucheng Li, Wenming Zhan, Yongshi Jia, Hanchu Xiong, Baihua Lin, Qiang Li, Huaxin Liu, Lingyun Qiu, Yinghao Zhang, Jieni Ding, Chao Fu, Weijun Chen
Summary: This study compared the dosimetry and treatment efficiency of continuous semi-arc and tangent-arc plans in radiotherapy for breast cancer. The results showed that the tangent-arc plan had lower doses in the lung and spinal cord compared to the continuous semi-arc plan, and it also had a shorter treatment time, which greatly improved treatment efficiency.
FRONTIERS IN ONCOLOGY
(2023)
Review
Oncology
V Salvestrini, G. C. Iorio, P. Borghetti, F. De Felice, C. Greco, V Nardone, A. Fiorentino, F. Gregucci, I Desideri
Summary: Cardiac toxicity is a feared side effect of radiotherapy in breast cancer patients, but modern techniques like DIBH have improved this situation. Further research is needed to evaluate the risk-benefit ratio and identify high-risk patients for tailored treatment options.
JOURNAL OF CANCER RESEARCH AND CLINICAL ONCOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Oncology
Jiheon Song, Terence Tang, Jean-Michel Caudrelier, Jason Belec, Jessica Chan, Patricia Lacasse, Ghada Aldosary, Vimoj Nair
Summary: The study investigated the dose reductions in individual cardiac segments from using the DIBH technique in left-sided breast cancer patients. It found that DIBH effectively reduced doses to the heart, left lung, left anterior descending coronary artery, and left ventricle, with the greatest absolute dose reductions seen in the distal LAD and apical LV segments. Lung expansion was significantly correlated with dose reductions in the LAD and LV segments.
RADIOTHERAPY AND ONCOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Oncology
Sofian Benkhaled, Carolina Gomes da Silveira Cauduro, Nicolas Jullian, Antoine Desmet, Diana Rodriguez, Younes Jourani, Dirk Van Gestel, Alex De Caluwe
Summary: This study analyzed 225 CBCTs from 15 patients undergoing DIBH radiotherapy, finding a wide range of heart position variations during treatment. Clinicians should be aware of individual differences to avoid cardiac overexposure and develop accurate dose-volume models.
FRONTIERS IN ONCOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
Pedro F. Ferreira, Arjun Banerjee, Andrew D. Scott, Zohya Khalique, Guang Yang, Ramyah Rajakulasingam, Maria Dwornik, Ranil De Silva, Dudley J. Pennell, David N. Firmin, Sonia Nielles-Vallespin
Summary: In this study, a fitting-free deep learning approach was used to reconstruct diffusion tensors for in vivo cardiac diffusion tensor imaging (cDTI) and reduce scan time. The results showed that both the conventional linear-least-square (LLS) and U-Net methods with reduced datasets had some bias compared to the reference results. However, when considering direct pixel-wise errors, the U-Net model outperformed the LLS tensor fit for reduced datasets that can be acquired in three or just one breath-hold. Therefore, the trained U-Net is a promising approach to minimize the number of breath-holds needed in clinical cDTI studies.
JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Chih-Yung Chang, Tse-Hao Lee, Ren-Shyan Liu, Chien-Ying Li, Bang-Hung Yang, Wen-Yi Chang, Tzu-Ping Lin, Chi-Wei Chang, Shan-Fan Yao, Tzu-Chun Wei, Chien-Yuan Lin, Charng-Chyi Shieh, Chia-Feng Lu
Summary: The feasibility and performance of FDIBH 3D ZTE technology for assessing lung nodules were investigated, showing significant advantages in detecting lung base nodules, especially those less than 6mm.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2021)
Article
Oncology
Sara Poeta, Younes Jourani, Alex De Caluwe, Robbe Van den Begin, Dirk Van Gestel, Nick Reynaert
Summary: This study compared the treatment delivery time and dosimetric differences between 8 partial arcs VMAT and 4 partial arcs VMAT for left-sided breast cancer patients using deep-inspiration breath hold technique. The results showed that 4 partial arcs VMAT significantly reduced treatment delivery time without compromising the treatment efficacy.
RADIATION ONCOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Oncology
Yutaro Koide, Hidetoshi Shimizu, Takahiro Aoyama, Tomoki Kitagawa, Risei Miyauchi, Yui Watanabe, Hiroyuki Tachibana, Takeshi Kodaira
Summary: This study found that preoperative spirometry and BMI are important predictors of mean heart and lung dose in deep inspiration breath-hold radiotherapy. Elderly patients and those with lower vital capacity may have larger predictive variations, but spirometry may be a substitute for lung volume measurement in free-breathing as a predictor of mean heart dose.
RADIATION ONCOLOGY
(2022)
Review
Oncology
Erin Ferrigni, Carmen Bergom, Ziyan Yin, Aniko Szabo, Amanda L. Kong
CLINICAL BREAST CANCER
(2019)
Review
Oncology
Carmen Bergom, Catharine M. West, Daniel S. Higginson, Mohamed E. Abazeed, Banu Arun, Soren M. Bentzen, Jonine L. Bernstein, Jaden D. Evans, Naamit K. Gerber, Sarah L. Kerns, Judy Keen, Jennifer K. Litton, Anne S. Reiner, Nadeem Riaz, Barry S. Rosenstein, Gabriel O. Sawakuchi, Simona F. Shaitelman, Simon N. Powell, Wendy A. Woodward
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY BIOLOGY PHYSICS
(2019)
Review
Oncology
Rachel A. Schlaak, Gopika SenthilKumar, Marjan Boerma, Carmen Bergom
Article
Oncology
Rachel A. Schlaak, Anne Frei, Brian L. Fish, Leanne Harmann, Tracy Gasperetti, Jamie L. Pipke, Yunguang Sun, Hallgeir Rui, Michael J. Flister, Benjamin N. Gantner, Carmen Bergom
Article
Oncology
Mihaela Ghita, Eleanor K. Gill, Gerard M. Walls, Kevin S. Edgar, Stephen J. McMahon, Eliana Vasquez Osorio, Carmen Bergom, David J. Grieve, Chris J. Watson, Alan McWilliam, Marianne Aznar, Marcel van Herk, Kaye J. Williams, Karl T. Butterworth
RADIOTHERAPY AND ONCOLOGY
(2020)
Article
Oncology
Carmen Bergom, Jason Rubenstein, J. Frank Wilson, Aimee Welsh, El-Sayed H. Ibrahim, Phillip Prior, Aronne M. Schottstaedt, Daniel Eastwood, Mei-Jie Zhang, Adam Currey, Lindsay Puckett, Jennifer L. Strande, Julie A. Bradley, Julia White
FRONTIERS IN ONCOLOGY
(2020)
Article
Oncology
Julia Frebault, Carmen Bergom, Chandler S. Cortina, Monica E. Shukla, Yiwen Zhang, Chiang-Ching Huang, Amanda L. Kong
Summary: This study analyzes treatment patterns and survival outcomes in women aged 80 and above with invasive breast cancer using the National Cancer Database. Results show that surgical resection improves overall survival, emphasizing its importance in older patients.
CLINICAL BREAST CANCER
(2022)
Review
Oncology
Eric G. Nesbit, Eric D. Donnelly, Jonathan B. Strauss
Summary: Oligometastatic breast cancer, defined as 1-5 metastases, presents an intermediate state with unique molecular signature and better prognosis. Ablative therapies such as HIGRT show promising results in improving survival outcomes for these patients, especially when combined with immunotherapy.
CURRENT TREATMENT OPTIONS IN ONCOLOGY
(2021)
Review
Oncology
Joshua D. Mitchell, Daniel A. Cehic, Marita Morgia, Carmen Bergrom, Joanne Toohey, Patricia A. Guerrero, Maros Ferencik, Robin Kikuchi, Joseph R. Carver, Vlad G. Zaha, Jose A. Alvarez-Cardona, Sebastian Szmit, Andres J. Daniele, Juan Lopez-Mattei, Lili Zhang, Jorg Herrmann, Anju Nohria, Daniel J. Lenihan, Susan F. Dent
Summary: Radiation therapy is a key component of cancer treatment, but can have long-term cardiovascular effects such as atherosclerosis and valvular dysfunction. The International Cardio-Oncology Society provides recommendations on cardiovascular management and follow-up, emphasizing early detection of atherosclerotic vascular disease for preventive therapy.
JACC: CARDIOONCOLOGY
(2021)
Review
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Walter Schiffer, Lauren N. Pedersen, Matthew Lui, Carmen Bergom, Joshua D. Mitchell
Summary: Radiation therapy is fundamental in cancer treatment, but it is important to acknowledge its potential cardiovascular effects and find ways to minimize or manage them. Screening through imaging and biomarkers can help identify cardiovascular effects early and initiate prompt treatment.
CURRENT CARDIOLOGY REPORTS
(2023)
Article
Cell Biology
Anupama Tiwari, Arsalan Hashemiaghdam, Marissa A. Laramie, Dario Maschi, Tristaan Haddad, Marion I. Stunault, Carmen Bergom, Ali Javaheri, Vitaly Klyachko, Ghazaleh Ashrafi
Summary: The study found that glucose deprivation in brain cells drives the expression of mitochondrial deacetylase Sirtuin 3, which stimulates oxidative ATP synthesis in hippocampal nerve terminals to sustain neurotransmission. This research reveals the molecular mechanisms of neuronal metabolic plasticity.
JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Oncology
Mohamed K. Abdelhakiem, Candice Johnstone, Carmen Bergom, Adam Currey, Jared R. Robbins
Review
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Katie Livingston, Rachel A. Schlaak, Lindsay L. Puckett, Carmen Bergom
FRONTIERS IN CARDIOVASCULAR MEDICINE
(2020)
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Rachel A. Schlaak, Anne Frei, Gopika SenthilKumar, Shirng-Wern Tsaih, Clive Wells, Jyotsna Mishra, Michael J. Flister, Amadou K. S. Camara, Carmen Bergom
FRONTIERS IN CARDIOVASCULAR MEDICINE
(2020)
Article
Oncology
Nina Desai, Adam Currey, Tracy Kelly, Carmen Bergom
ADVANCES IN RADIATION ONCOLOGY
(2019)