Affiliation:
1. Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
Abstract
Abstract
Purpose:
The incidence of anal cancer in patients with kidney transplants has increased. The definitive treatment for anal cancer is chemotherapy and intensity-modulated radiation therapy. In kidney transplant recipients, sparing the pelvic kidney in the process of delivering radiation to the anus can be challenging. Intensity-modulated proton therapy (IMPT) has been proposed as an alternative to intensity-modulated radiation therapy for the treatment of anal cancer in this population, given its increased ability to spare organs-at-risk.
Case Series:
We present 4 cases of patients with transplanted pelvic kidneys who subsequently developed anal cancer and were treated with IMPT from 2017 to 2019.
Conclusion:
Use of IMPT appears to be an acceptable option for the treatment of anal cancer in patients with a pelvic kidney.
Publisher
International Journal of Particle Therapy
Subject
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
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