Practice Patterns and Recommendations for Pediatric Image-guided Radiotherapy: A Children's Oncology Group Report

Overview

Journal Pediatr Blood Cancer

Specialties Hematology
Oncology
Pediatrics

Date 2020 Aug 11

PMID 32776500

Citations 4

Authors

Chia-Ho Hua

Tamara Z Vern-Gross

Clayton B Hess

Arthur J Olch

Parham Alaei

Vythialingam Sathiaseelan

Jun Deng

Kenneth Ulin

Fran Laurie

Mahesh Gopalakrishnan

Natia Esiashvili

Suzanne L Wolden

Matthew J Krasin

Thomas E Merchant

Sarah S Donaldson

Thomas J Fitzgerald

Louis S Constine

David C Hodgson

Daphne A Haas-Kogan

Anita Mahajan

Nadia N Laack

Karen J Marcus

Paige A Taylor

Verity A Ahern

David S Followill

Jeffrey C Buchsbaum

John C Breneman

John A Kalapurakal

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Abstract

This report by the Radiation Oncology Discipline of Children's Oncology Group (COG) describes the practice patterns of pediatric image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) based on a member survey and provides practice recommendations accordingly. The survey comprised of 11 vignettes asking clinicians about their recommended treatment modalities, IGRT preferences, and frequency of in-room verification. Technical questions asked physicists about imaging protocols, dose reduction, setup correction, and adaptive therapy. In this report, the COG Radiation Oncology Discipline provides an IGRT modality/frequency decision tree and the expert guidelines for the practice of ionizing image guidance in pediatric radiotherapy patients.

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