Brain metastasis treated with Cyberknife.
BACKGROUND
Cyberknife can greatly raise the fractional dose of stereotactic radiosurgery, thus improving its clinical efficacy. We retrospectively analyzed clinical outcomes of brain metastasis treated with Cyberknife.


METHODS
We analyzed 40 cases of brain metastases treated with Cyberknife in the Tianjin Cancer Hospital from August 1, 2006 to August 1, 2007, for a total of 68 lesions with maximal diameter of 0.4 - 7.5 cm (average 1.88 cm). Total hypofractional radiated dosage was 18 - 36 Gy (5 - 25 Gy/F, 1 - 5 F) by Cyberknife. We evaluated the remission rate of clinical symptoms, correlation factors to new foci, 3-month local control rates, and 3-month and 1-year survival rates. All patients were followed up for more than 14 months.


RESULTS
After 1 week, clinical remission was 90.0% (36/40). After 3 months, the local control rate and therapeutic effective rate were 77.9% (53/68) and 94.1% (64/68), respectively, as observed by cranium augmentation CT or MRI. The three-month, six-month and 1-year survival rates were 97.5% (39/40), 82.5% (33/40) and 67.5% (27/40), respectively. Fourteen patients had neopathy outside the original lesion after 3 months. Neopathy was not correlated with age, whole-brain radiotherapy, number of original lesions, maximum diameter of the original lesion, therapeutic dose per fraction, therapeutic frequency or total therapeutic dose.


CONCLUSIONS
Cyberknife got perfect clinical outcomes by higher dosage per fraction. It is an appropriate and valid treatment shortcut for brain metastasis.
Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Therapy and Department of Radiation Therapy, Tianjin Cancer Hospital of Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China.
Zhi-zhen
ZZ
Wang
Zhi-yong
ZY
Yuan
Wen-cheng
WC
Zhang
Jin-qiang
JQ
You
Ping
P
Wang
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016634:Radiosurgery / Q000379:methods*; D011881:Radiotherapy, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D055815:Young Adult