Evaluation of conformal radiotherapy treatment planning of breast cancer patients: Preliminary case study patients from Persahabatan Central Hospital

Abstract

Persahabatan Central Hospital has served radiotherapy treatment for cancer patients using linac, Elekta Precise and XiO treatment planning system (TPS) since May 2017. This study collected 91 breast cancer patients treated from May 2017 until January 2019. Most patients were preceded by surgery either mammae radical mastectomy (MRM) (83.5%) or breast conservative surgery (BCS) (16.5%). Conformal treatment planning generally performed with 2 tangential fields and most included oblique fields for treating axillary lymph nodes. Percentage of patients with clinical tumor volumes >400 cm3 was 29%, in the range of 200-400 cm3 was 36%, and the rest was <200 cm3. The lung volume irradiated with dose ≥20 Gy was used as one of parameters for treatment optimization. The mrm patient number with lung volume irradiated >30% was 9 persons (11.8%), in the range of 20-30% was 65 persons (85.5%), and <20% was 2 persons (2.6%). For the bcs patients, the number followed these criteria with lung volume of 20-30% was 13 persons (86.7%), and <20% was 2 persons (13.3%). Most breast cancer patients treated with radiotherapy were advanced stage preceded by mrm, treatment planning was difficult for achieving lung volume <30% that irradiated with the dose ≥20 Gy.