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New rectum dose surface mapping methodology to identify rectal subregions associated with toxicities following prostate cancer radiotherapy
Bouzaki, A. Green, D. van Herk, M. Shortall, J. Puri, T. Kerns, S. Azria, D. Farcy-Jacquet, M. P. Chang-Claude, J. Choudhury, A.
Bouzaki, A.
Green, D.
van Herk, M.
Shortall, J.
Puri, T.
Kerns, S.
Azria, D.
Farcy-Jacquet, M. P.
Chang-Claude, J.
Choudhury, A.
Abstract
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Growing evidence suggests that spatial dose variations across the rectal surface influence toxicity risk after radiotherapy. Existing methodologies employ a fixed, arbitrary physical extent for rectal dose mapping, limiting their analysis. We developed a method to standardise rectum contours, unfold them into 2D cylindrical surface maps, and identify subregions where higher doses increase rectal toxicities. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Data of 1,048 patients with prostate cancer from the REQUITE study were used. Deep learning based automatic segmentations were generated to ensure consistency. Rectum length was standardised using linear transformations superior and inferior to the prostate. The automatic contours were validated against the manual contours through contour variation assessment with cylindrical mapping. Voxel-based analysis of the dose surface maps for the manual and automatic contours against individual rectal toxicities was performed using Student's t permutation test and Cox Proportional Hazards Model (CPHM). Significance was defined by permutation testing. RESULTS: Our method enabled the analysis of 1,048 patients using automatic segmentation. Student's t-test showed significance (p < 0.05) in the lower posterior for clinical-reported proctitis and patient-reported bowel urgency. Univariable CPHM identified a 3 % increased risk per Gy for clinician-reported proctitis and a 2 % increased risk per Gy for patient-reported bowel urgency in the lower posterior. No other endpoints were significant. CONCLUSION: We developed a methodology that unfolds the rectum to a 2D surface map. The lower posterior was significant for clinician-reported proctitis and patient-reported bowel urgency, suggesting that reducing the dose in the region could decrease toxicity risk.
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Bouzaki, A.
Green, D.
van Herk, M.
Shortall, J.
Puri, T.
Kerns, S.
Azria, D.
Farcy-Jacquet, M. P.
Chang-Claude, J.
Choudhury, A.
Dunning, A.
Lambrecht, M.
Avuzzi, B.
Ruysscher, D.
Seibold, P.
Sperk, E.
Talbot, C.
Vega, A.
Veldeman, L.
Webb, A.
Rosenstein, B.
West, C. M.
Gioscio, E.
Rancati, T.
Osorio, E. V.
McWilliam, A.
Green, D.
van Herk, M.
Shortall, J.
Puri, T.
Kerns, S.
Azria, D.
Farcy-Jacquet, M. P.
Chang-Claude, J.
Choudhury, A.
Dunning, A.
Lambrecht, M.
Avuzzi, B.
Ruysscher, D.
Seibold, P.
Sperk, E.
Talbot, C.
Vega, A.
Veldeman, L.
Webb, A.
Rosenstein, B.
West, C. M.
Gioscio, E.
Rancati, T.
Osorio, E. V.
McWilliam, A.
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2025
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Bouzaki A, Green D, van Herk M, Shortall J, Puri T, Kerns S, et al. New rectum dose surface mapping methodology to identify rectal subregions associated with toxicities following prostate cancer radiotherapy. Physics and imaging in radiation oncology. 2025 Jan;33:100701. PubMed PMID: 39927213. Pubmed Central PMCID: PMC11803856. Epub 2025/02/10. eng.