Crawl positioning improves set-up precision and patient comfort in prone whole breast irradiation
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- Pieter Deseyne, Bruno Speleers (UGent) , Wilfried De Neve (UGent) , Bert Boute, Leen Paelinck (UGent) , Vincent Vakaet (UGent) , Hans Van Hulle, Max Schoepen (UGent) , Michael Stouthandel (UGent) , Annick Van Greveling (UGent) , Giselle Post (UGent) , Jan Detand (UGent) , Christel Monten (UGent) , Herman Depypere (UGent) and Liv Veldeman (UGent)
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- Prone positioning for whole-breast irradiation (WBI) reduces dose to organs at risk, but reduces set-up speed, precision, and comfort. We aimed to improve these problems by placing patients in prone crawl position on a newly developed crawl couch (CrC). A group of 10 right-sided breast cancer patients requiring WBI were randomized in this cross-over trial, comparing the CrC to a standard prone breastboard (BB). Laterolateral (LL), craniocaudal (CC) and anterioposterior (AP) set-up errors were evaluated with cone beam CT. Comfort, preference and set-up time (SUT) were assessed. Forty left and right-sided breast cancer patients served as a validation group. For BB versus CrC, AP, LL and CC mean patient shifts were - 0.8 +/- 2.8, 0.2 +/- 11.7 and - 0.6 +/- 4.4 versus - 0.2 +/- 3.3, - 0.8 +/- 2.5 and - 1.9 +/- 5.7 mm. LL shift spread was reduced significantly. Nine out of 10 patients preferred the CrC. SUT did not differ significantly. The validation group had mean patient shifts of 1.7 +/- 2.9 (AP), 0.2 +/- 3.6 (LL) and - 0.2 +/- 3.3 (CC) mm. Mean SUT in the validation group was 1 min longer (P<0.05) than the comparative group. Median SUT was 3 min in all groups. The CrC improved precision and comfort compared to BB. Set-up errors compare favourably to other prone-WBI trials and rival supine positioning.
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- CONE-BEAM CT, INTERFRACTIONAL VARIATIONS, CORRECTION PROTOCOL, CANCER PATIENTS, HEART-DISEASE, RADIOTHERAPY, ERRORS, WOMEN, RISK, HOLD
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- Deseyne, Pieter, et al. “Crawl Positioning Improves Set-up Precision and Patient Comfort in Prone Whole Breast Irradiation.” SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, vol. 10, no. 1, 2020, doi:10.1038/s41598-020-72702-3.
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- Deseyne, P., Speleers, B., De Neve, W., Boute, B., Paelinck, L., Vakaet, V., … Veldeman, L. (2020). Crawl positioning improves set-up precision and patient comfort in prone whole breast irradiation. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-72702-3
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- Deseyne, Pieter, Bruno Speleers, Wilfried De Neve, Bert Boute, Leen Paelinck, Vincent Vakaet, Hans Van Hulle, et al. 2020. “Crawl Positioning Improves Set-up Precision and Patient Comfort in Prone Whole Breast Irradiation.” SCIENTIFIC REPORTS 10 (1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-72702-3.
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- Deseyne, Pieter, Bruno Speleers, Wilfried De Neve, Bert Boute, Leen Paelinck, Vincent Vakaet, Hans Van Hulle, Max Schoepen, Michael Stouthandel, Annick Van Greveling, Giselle Post, Jan Detand, Christel Monten, Herman Depypere, and Liv Veldeman. 2020. “Crawl Positioning Improves Set-up Precision and Patient Comfort in Prone Whole Breast Irradiation.” SCIENTIFIC REPORTS 10 (1). doi:10.1038/s41598-020-72702-3.
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- 1.Deseyne P, Speleers B, De Neve W, Boute B, Paelinck L, Vakaet V, et al. Crawl positioning improves set-up precision and patient comfort in prone whole breast irradiation. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. 2020;10(1).
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- [1]P. Deseyne et al., “Crawl positioning improves set-up precision and patient comfort in prone whole breast irradiation,” SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, vol. 10, no. 1, 2020.
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