This pilot clinical trial studies the feasibility of palliative 4pi radiotherapy in treating patients with glioblastoma multiforme that has come back after standard chemoradiation. A new radiotherapy delivery planning system, called 4pi radiotherapy, may help improve radiation delivery by improving dose coverage to the treatment target, while reducing the dose to surrounding normal tissues.
PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: I. To determine the accuracy of dose delivery and patient comfort with treatment time. II. To evaluate normal tissue dose volume statistics and compare to standard planning. OUTLINE: Patients undergo 4pi radiation simulation and planning followed by 5 to 10 daily fractions of 4pi palliative radiotherapy. If an acceptable plan cannot be achieved using 4pi planning, then the patient will be treated with standard radiation therapy planning for palliative re-irradiation. After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up at 6 weeks.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
10
Undergo 4pi palliative radiotherapy
Ancillary studies
Undergo 4pi radiation simulation and planning
UCLA / Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
Los Angeles, California, United States
Accuracy of dose delivery
The accuracy of dose delivery by 4pi will be compared to standard procedures. Standard quality assurance (QA) procedures will be employed to validate the delivery accuracy of 4pi. Specifically, a MatriXX phantom will be employed to measure the dose in both the coronal and sagittal planes and compared to calculation. Patients with QA results showing gamma passing rates (using 3% and 3 mm dose difference and distance to agreement criteria, respectively) less than 90% in either plane or a maximum single gamma value greater than 2 will not be treated until the source of error is corrected.
Time frame: Up to 6 weeks
Normal tissue dose volume
Statistics will be compared between 4pi and standard planning. Specifically, dose to organs-at-risk (OAR) and planning target volume (PTV) coverage will be compared to assess for improved OAR sparing and improved PTV coverage with 4pi planning.
Time frame: Up to 6 weeks
Patient comfort with treatment time, determined by a patient-completed questionnaire completed at the end of each fraction
Time frame: Up to 10 days
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