Adaptive magnetic resonance image guided radiation for intact localized prostate cancer how to optimally test a rapidly emerging technology.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Prostate cancer is a common malignancy for which radiation therapy (RT) provides an excellent management option with high rates of control and low toxicity. Historically RT has been given with CT based image guidance. Recently, magnetic resonance (MR) imaging capabilities have been successfully integrated with RT delivery platforms, presenting an appealing, yet complex, expensive, and time-consuming method of adapting and guiding RT. The precise benefits of MR guidance for localized prostate cancer are unclear. We sought to summarize optimal strategies to test the benefits of MR guidance specifically in localized prostate cancer.

Methods

A group of radiation oncologists, physicists, and statisticians were identified to collectively address this topic. Participan

SUBMITTER: Hall WA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9484536 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature