ORIGINAL ARTICLE

JOP. J Pancreas (Online) 2006; 7(4):372-381.

Image-Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT) in Gastrointestinal Tumors

Charles L Perkins1, Tim Fox1, Eric Elder1, David A Kooby2, Charles A Staley III2, Jerome Landry1

Departments of 1Radiation and 2Surgical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine. Atlanta, GA, USA

SOURCE DATA

Load the file with patients' data: 06_data(patients).xls
The descriptive statistics were computed by menas of the Microsoft Excel 2003 for Windows XP sofware and are shown in this file.

Variable name

Description

Coded values/Units

Patient_ID

Patient identifier

 

Site

Primary cancer site

- Pancreas
- Biliary
- Gastric
- Gallbladder
- Renal liposarcoma

Sex

Gender

F: Females
M: Males

Age

Patient's age

Years

Stage

Tumor stage

 

IMRT

Intensity modulated radiotherapy

- Yes
- No

Chemo

Chemotherapy

5-FU: 5-FU/leucovorin
Gem: Gemcitabine
None

Gy

Radiation dose

Gray

Technique

Descriptive field

 

Bone

Bone landmark

- Yes
- No

Clip

Clip landmark

- Yes
- No

Total_tretments

Total number of treatments

 

kV-kV

Number of OBI sessions

 

Load the file with data of daily vector shifts: 06_data(shifts).xls
The descriptive statistics were computed by menas of the Microsoft Excel 2003 for Windows XP sofware and are shown in this file.

Variable name

Description

Coded values/Units

Clip

Clip landmark

- Yes
- No

Patient_ID

Patient identifier

 

Site

Primary cancer site

- pancreas
- biliary
- gastric
- gallbladder
- renal liposarcoma

Tretment#

Progressive treatment of the patient

 

Vrtcm

Vertical shift

cm

Lngcm

Longitudinal shift

cm

Latcm

Lateral shift

cm

Rtncm

Rotational shift

cm

Vector

Total vector shift

cm

COMPUTED VARIABLES

Load the file reporting the instructions performed: 06_comp.html

Variable name

Description

Coded values

Iclip

Clip landmark (Numerical)

0: Bone
1: Bone+Clip

Isite

Primary cancer site (Numerical)

1: Pancreas
2: Biliary
3: Gastric
4: Gallbladder
5: Renal liposarcoma

Ipanc

Pancreatic cancer (Dichotomous)

0: No
1: Yes

Ibili

Biliary cancer (Dichotomous)

0: No
1: Yes

Igast

Gastric cancer (Dichotomous)

0: No
1: Yes

Igall

Gallbladder cancer (Dichotomous)

0: No
1: Yes

Irena

Renal liposarcoma (Dichotomous)

0: No
1: Yes

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS

Load the statistical report: 06_stat.html

Abstract
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Correspondence Jerome Landry: jerome@radonc.emory.org


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