Target Motion Management in Breast Cancer Radiation Therapy

Overview

Journal Radiol Oncol

Publisher Sciendo

Specialties Oncology
Radiology

Date 2021 Oct 9

PMID 34626533

Citations 8

Authors

Elham Piruzan

Naser Vosoughi

Seied Rabi Mahdavi

Leila Khalafi

Hojjat Mahani

Affiliations

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Abstract

Background: Over the last two decades, breast cancer remains the main cause of cancer deaths in women. To treat this type of cancer, radiation therapy (RT) has proved to be efficient. RT for breast cancer is, however, challenged by intrafractional motion caused by respiration. The problem is more severe for the left-sided breast cancer due to the proximity to the heart as an organ-at-risk. While particle therapy results in superior dose characteristics than conventional RT, due to the physics of particle interactions in the body, particle therapy is more sensitive to target motion.

Conclusions: This review highlights current and emerging strategies for the management of intrafractional target motion in breast cancer treatment with an emphasis on particle therapy, as a modern RT technique. There are major challenges associated with transferring real-time motion monitoring technologies from photon to particles beams. Surface imaging would be the dominant imaging modality for real-time intrafractional motion monitoring for breast cancer. The magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) guidance and ultra high dose rate (FLASH)-RT seem to be state-of-the-art approaches to deal with 4D RT for breast cancer.

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