Matthias Guckenberger , Lotte Wilke , Charlotte Billiet , Susanne Rogers , Ciro Franzese , Daniel Schnell , Mateusz Spałek , Daniel M. Aebersold , Hossein Hemmatazad , Thomas Zilli , Judit Boda-Heggemann , Brigitta G. Baumert , Jean-Jacques Stelmes , Franziska Nägler , Philipp Gut , Christian Weiß , Alessio Bruni , Frank Zimmermann , Robert Förster , Jörg Zimmer , Indira Madani
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Abstract
Purpose
To prospectively evaluate safety and efficacy of dose-intensified multifraction SBRT using a simultaneous-integrated boost concept for vertebral oligometastases.
Material and Methods
Data from 128 patients with 143 vertebral oligometastases (≤5 distant metastases in total) treated with dose-intensified SBRT (48.5 Gy/10 [with epidural involvement] or 40 Gy/5 [without epidural involvement]) in the randomized and non-randomized arms of a phase 3 clinical trial conducted at 18 international centers between 2016 and 2023 were analyzed.
Results
The median age of all patients was 68 years; 77 patients (60.2%) had breast and prostate cancer. Of 143 vertebral metastases, 23 (16.1%) and 22 metastases (15.4%) had epidural and paraspinal tumor involvement, respectively. The median follow-up time was 24 months. At 2 years, cumulative incidence of local failure (4 failures) was 5.3%. There were 4 (2.8%) baseline and 8 (5.6%) de novo vertebral compression fractures (VCFs). Two-year OS was 82.2% (95% CI, 74.9–89.6%). There was no grade ≥ 4 adverse events (AE) and the crude rate of grade 3 AEs was 5.5%; no myelopathy or plexopathy was observed. On multivariate analysis, only non-breast or non-prostate cancer (HR, 7.91; 95%, CI 1.79–35.03; 2-sided P = 0.01) were found to be prognostic for adverse OS. No prognostic factors for VCF were identified. Epidural and paraspinal involvement were not found to be prognostic for treatment outcome.
Conclusions
Dose-intensified SBRT for vertebral oligometastases is effective and safe, even in high-risk patients with epidural or paraspinal involvement.
期刊介绍:
Radiotherapy and Oncology publishes papers describing original research as well as review articles. It covers areas of interest relating to radiation oncology. This includes: clinical radiotherapy, combined modality treatment, translational studies, epidemiological outcomes, imaging, dosimetry, and radiation therapy planning, experimental work in radiobiology, chemobiology, hyperthermia and tumour biology, as well as data science in radiation oncology and physics aspects relevant to oncology.Papers on more general aspects of interest to the radiation oncologist including chemotherapy, surgery and immunology are also published.