Improving the Quality of Radiotherapy by Multi-Institution Knowledge-Based Planning Optimization Models (Acronym: MIKAPOCo, Multi-Institutional Knowledge-based Approach in Plan Optimization for the Community)

Launched by IRCCS OSPEDALE SAN RAFFAELE · Mar 12, 2024

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Major aims

1. To create libraries of consistently generated KB models for patients treated with RT for breast and prostate cancer and for selected stereotactic-body RT (SBRT) applications based on the experience of many Italian Institutions; to quantify planning inter-institute variability in homogeneous classes of patients.
2. To group models based on their characteristics and interchangeability. To assess groups of highly interchangeable models to be considered for multi-institutional dose-volume histogram (DVH) prediction purposes.

Gender

ALL

Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • real life consecutive (or randomly chosen) plan data of patients treated for prostate cancer during the last 10 years;
• • real life consecutive (or randomly chosen) plan data of patients treated for breast cancer during the last 10 years;
• • real life consecutive (or randomly chosen) plan data of patients treated for selected SBRT situations (spine and prostate, according to RTOG 0631 and 0938 schemes respectively) during the last 10 years.
• Exclusion Criteria:
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