Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
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Multicenter Study
A new nomogram for estimating survival in patients with brain metastases secondary to colorectal cancer.
The prognosis of brain metastases (BM) in colorectal cancer (CRC) is extremely poor, but the incidence is increasing. The performance of existing prognostic classifications such as recursive partitioning analysis (RPA) and graded prognostic assessment (GPA) has never been evaluated in this specific setting. Moreover, the development of nomograms for estimating survival in such patients could be extremely helpful for treating physicians. ⋯ The C-index associated to the nomogram model was slightly higher than that obtained for the RPA and GPA classifications. Most importantly, the very satisfactory results of nomogram validation on the external series, make us confident that our instrument may assist in prognostic assessment, treatment decision making, and enrollment into clinical trials.
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To compare late genitourinary (GU) and gastrointestinal (GI) toxicity following different prostate cancer treatment modalities. ⋯ The differences in the late G2+ GU/GI risk cannot be explained by the differences in treatment modalities themselves, but by the total radiation dose to the GU/GI tract, which had a causal role in the development of late G2+ GU/GI toxicity across all treatment modality groups.