Objective: Major international guidelines have not standardized the sequence of diagnostic examinations during the follow-up of a patient with a diagnosed breast cancer. The aim of this study is to investigate the acc...
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Objective: Major international guidelines have not standardized the sequence of diagnostic examinations during the follow-up of a patient with a diagnosed breast cancer. The aim of this study is to investigate the accuracy of sonography in the diagnosis of loco-regional lymphatic recurrences in comparison to the core needle biopsy results. Materials and Methods: Among 6455 patients who were followed up with clinical examination, mammography and ultrasound between January 2004 and November 2011, 125 (1.93%) patients had to be investigated with a core needle biopsy of a sonographically suspicious loco-regional lymph node. Results: Among the whole series, a total of 142 ultrasound-guided core needle biopsies were performed. Follow-up for the primary tumor lasted for a median time of 6.1 years (range 1 - 27 years). Ultrasound of suspicious loco-regional lymph nodes showed a sensitivity of 89.5%, a specificity of 87.1% and a positive predictive value of 89.5%. Conclusions: In our experience, ultrasound of suspicious loco-regional lymph nodes showed good accuracy and it should be a part of the standard examinations performed during follow-up for breast cancer.
AIM: To assess how the application of different types of markers affects the tracking accuracy of Cyber Knife'***: Fifteen patients were recruited and subjected to the ultrasound-guided placement of markers. Two diffe...
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AIM: To assess how the application of different types of markers affects the tracking accuracy of Cyber Knife'***: Fifteen patients were recruited and subjected to the ultrasound-guided placement of markers. Two different type of needles 25 gauge(G) and 17 G containing two different fiducial marker, gold notched flexible anchor wire 0.28 mm × 10 mm(25 G needle) and gold cylindrical grain 1 mm × 4 mm(17 G), were used. Seven days after the procedure, a Cyber Knife planning computed tomography(CT) for the simulation of radiation treatment was performed on all patients.A binary CT score was assigned to the fiducial markers visualization. Also, the CT number was calculated for each fiducial and the values compared with a specific ***: For each patient from 1 to 5, intra-hepatic markers were placed(one in 2 patients, three in 8 patients, four in 3 patients, and five in 2 patients). A total of 48 needles were used(thirty-two 17 G and sixteen 25 G) and 48 gold markers were placed(32 Grain shaped markers and 16 Gold Anchor). The result showed that the CT visualization of the grain markers was better than the anchor markers(P = 5 × 10^(-9)). Furthermore, the grain markers were shown to present minor late complications(P = 3 × 10^(-6)), and the best CT threshold number(P = 0.0005). CONCLUSION: The study revealed that the Gold Anchor fiducial marker is correlated with a greater number of late minor complications and low visualization by the CT.
背景与目的 通过意大利放射治疗和临床肿瘤学学会(Italian Association of Radiotherapy and Clinical Oncology, AIRO)的一项多中心回顾性研究,明确免疫疗法(immunotherapy, IT)和立体定向放疗(stereotactic radiotherapy,SRT)包括放...
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背景与目的 通过意大利放射治疗和临床肿瘤学学会(Italian Association of Radiotherapy and Clinical Oncology, AIRO)的一项多中心回顾性研究,明确免疫疗法(immunotherapy, IT)和立体定向放疗(stereotactic radiotherapy,SRT)包括放射外科治疗(radiosurgery, RS)或大分割立体定向放疗(hypofractionated stereotactic radiotherapy, HFSRT)治疗非小细胞肺癌(non-small cell lung cancer, NSCLC)脑转移的疗效和毒性。方法 对来自19个意大利中心接受SRT+IT的NSCLC伴脑转移患者进行分析,并与单独接受SRT的对照组患者进行比较。结果 共纳入SRT+IT组100例和单独SRT组50例。接受SRT+IT的患者有更长的颅内局部无进展生存期(intracranial local progression-free survival, i LPFS)(经倾向性评分调整后,P=0.007)。在诊断为脑转移时接受IT合并有颅外进展的患者中(n=24),接受SRT后再进行IT与较好的总生存期(overall survival, OS)相关(P=0.037)。多因素分析显示组织学类型为非腺癌、卡氏体能状态(Karnofsky performance status,KPS)评分=70分以及接受HFSRT与显著减少的生存期相关(P值分别为0.019、0.017和0.007)。与SRT和IT治疗间隔>7天(n=10)相比,治疗间隔≤7天(n=90)与更长的OS相关(经倾向性评分调整后,P=0.008)。联合治疗耐受性良好。在放射性坏死方面,接受SRT+IT的患者与单独SRT的患者无显著差异。SRT和IT的治疗间隔对毒性发生率无影响。结论 SRT+IT是一种安全的联合治疗方法,与单独SRT相比,具有更长的i LPFS。
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