Copenhagen, Denmark
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ESTRO 2022

Session Item

Sunday
May 08
10:30 - 11:30
Room D4
MR-guided radiotherapy
Marcel van Herk, United Kingdom;
Vivian van Pelt, The Netherlands
2200
Proffered Papers
Interdisciplinary
10:30 - 10:40
Patterns of Care and Safety in 1800 patients treated on a high-field MR-Linac platform registry
Jasmijn Westerhoff, The Netherlands
OC-0419

Abstract

Patterns of Care and Safety in 1800 patients treated on a high-field MR-Linac platform registry
Authors:

Jasmijn Westerhoff1, Lois Daamen1, John Christodouleas2, Erwin Blezer1, Ananya Choudhury3, Rosalyne Westley4, Beth Erickson5, Clifton Fuller6, Shaista Hafeez7, Uulke van der Heide8, Martijn Intven9, Anna Kirby10, Susan Lalondrelle10, Bruce Minsky6, Stella Mook11, Marlies Nowee8, Corrie Marijnen8, Kristina Orrling12, Arjun Sahgal13, Christopher Schultz5, Robbert Tersteeg9, Alison Tree14, Chia-Lin Tseng13, Jochem van der Voort van Zyp9, Helena Verkooijen15, William Hall5

1University Medical Center Utrecht, Division of Imaging and Oncology, Utrecht, The Netherlands; 2Elekta AB, Elekta, Stockholm, Sweden; 3The University of Manchester and The Christie National Health Service Foundation Trust, Radiation Oncology, Manchester, United Kingdom; 4The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Radiation Oncology, London, United Kingdom; 5Medical College of Wisconsin, Department of Radiation Oncology, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States Minor Outlying Island; 6University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, Department of Radiation Oncology, Houston, Texas, United States Minor Outlying Island; 7The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom; 8Netherlands Cancer Institute, Department of Radiation Oncology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 9University Medical Center Utrecht, Department of Radiation Oncology, Utrecht, The Netherlands; 10The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and The Institute of Cancer, Radiation Oncology, London, United Kingdom; 11University Medical Center, Department of Radiation Oncology, Utrecht, The Netherlands; 12Lygature, ., Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 13Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre-Odette Cancer Centre, Department of Radiation Oncology, Toronto, Canada; 14The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and The Institute of Cancer, Department of Radiation Oncology, London, United Kingdom; 15University Medical Center Utrecht, Department of Imaging and Oncology, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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Purpose or Objective

In 2018, the first high-field MR-Linac was introduced into clinical practice for the applicability of magnetic resonance guided radiotherapy (MRgRT). This system integrates a diagnostic 1.5 Tesla (T) MR scanner with a linear accelerator and provides online adaptation of treatment plans according to daily position of tumors and organs at risk (OAR) visualised on MR imaging. MRgRT has the potential to increase irradiation doses to the target area, whilst reducing the risk of toxicity by sparing the OARs. Here, we present patterns of care and safety after enrolment of the first 1800 patients in the Multi-OutcoMe EvaluatioN of radiation Therapy Using the MR-Linac Study (MOMENTUM) (NCT04075305). 

Material and Methods

This international, multi-institutional, prospective, observational cohort study included patients ≥ 18 years receiving treatment on MR-Linac between February 2019 and October 2021 in eight institutions from five countries. Descriptive statistics were used to describe the patterns of care and safety. Acute severe toxicity was scored according to CTCAE (Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events) grade ≥ 3, during first three months after treatment. They were classified as possibly or likely radiation treatment related if the toxicity was not reported pre-treatment, and if nature of adverse event was likely to be related to anatomic area of treatment. 

Results

At present, 1801 patients with complete baseline data were available for analysis. Of these, 1412 patients were male (78%) and the median age was 69 years (range 23-95 years). Tumor sites that were most frequently treated were prostate (n = 789; 44%), lymph nodes (n = 203, 11%) and brain (n = 200, 11%). The majority of patients received treatment for a primary tumor (n = 1284, 71%). Median of fractions per treatment was 5 (range 1-35). Currently, 1011 patients were evaluated for acute toxicity. Grade 3 or more toxicity occurred in 109 patients (11 %), of which 23 (2 %) toxicities were possibly or likely radiation treatment-related. No grade 4 or 5 acute events related to radiation were observed. 

Image 1: Frequency of inclusions per tumor site



Table 1: Toxicity (≥  grade 3 of CTCAE) possibly or likely to be attributed to radiotherapy treatment


Conclusion

This study shows acute toxicity outcomes from the fast growing number of patients treated on the MR-Linac for various tumor sites. Given that less than 5 % of grade 3 toxicities, possibly or likely related to treatment, were reported without any grade 4 or 5 events, implementation of high-field online MRgRT is likely to be safe. Updated results will be reported at ESTRO.