Abstract | BACKGROUND: AIM: MATERIALS AND METHODS: Forty-four (18 female, 26 male) patients diagnosed with malignant pleural mesothelioma were retrospectively evaluated. All patients had surgery or thoracoscopic biopsy for diagnosis, staging or treatment and all received palliative or prophylactic radiotherapy. Fifty-seven percent of the patients received chemotherapy. RESULTS: Prophylactic radiation was applied to 27 patients with 4-15 MeV electron energies. The median radiotherapy dose was 30 Gy with 3 Gy daily fraction dose. During treatment, 12 patients had grade 1 erythema according to the RTOG scale. In 3 (12%) patients, a local failure at treatment field was observed. Palliative radiotherapy was applied to 17 patients for pain palliation. The median radiation dose was 40 Gy with 2 Gy daily fraction dose by using 6-18 MV photon and/or 4-12 MeV electron energies. Two patients had grade 1 erythema and one patient had grade 2 odynophagy according to the RTOG scale. For 10 (59%) patients, palliation of chest pain was delivered. No late toxicity was observed for all cases. CONCLUSION:
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Authors | Muge Akmansu, Ozge Petek Erpolat, Fatih Goksel, Evrim Tunc, Can Ozturk |
Journal | Reports of practical oncology and radiotherapy : journal of Greatpoland Cancer Center in Poznan and Polish Society of Radiation Oncology
(Rep Pract Oncol Radiother)
Vol. 18
Issue 2
Pg. 82-6
( 2012)
ISSN: 1507-1367 [Print] Poland |
PMID | 24416534
(Publication Type: Journal Article)
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