Background
Methods
Characteristic | Value (%) |
---|---|
Age, y | |
Median | 51 |
Range | 19–80 |
Sex | |
Female | 23 (61) |
Male | 15 (39) |
Tumor stage (Bhattachyryya 2004) | |
Stage 1 | 5 (13) |
Stage 2 | 5 (13) |
Stage 3 | 5 (13) |
Stage 4 | 23 (61) |
UICC Characteristics of stage 4 tumors | 23 |
T stage | |
T1 | 0 (0) |
T2 | 0 (0) |
T3 | 2 (9) |
T4 | 21 (91) |
N stage | |
N0 | 16 (70) |
N1 | 4 (17) |
No data | 3 (13) |
M stage | |
M0 | 18 (78) |
M1 | 5 (22) |
N1 + M1 | 1 (4) |
Treatment | |
Surgery | 7 (18) |
Radiation therapy | 18 (47) |
C12 | 6 (33) |
Photons | 12 (67) |
Surgery and radiation therapy | 13 (34) |
C12 | 1 (8) |
Photons | 12 (92) |
No treatment | 1 (3) |
Resection status | |
R0 | 9 (45) |
R1 | 10 (50) |
R2 | 1 (5) |
Results
Stages | Definitions |
---|---|
T-Stage | |
T1 | Primary tumor confined to trachea; size < 2 cm |
T2 | Primary tumor confined to trachea; size > 2 cm |
T3 | Spread outside the trachea but not to adjacent organs or structures |
T4 | Spread to adjacent organs or structures |
Tx | Unkown or cannot be assessed |
N-Stage | |
N0 | No evidence of regional nodal disease |
N1 | Clinical or histological evidence of regional nodal disease |
Nx | Unknown or cannot be assessed |
M-Stage | |
M0 | No evidence of distant metastases |
M1 | Clinical or histological evidence of distant metastases |
Mx | Unknown or cannot be assessed |
Pn-Stage | |
Pn0 | No histological evidence of perineural invasion |
Pn1 | Histological evidence of perineural invasion |
Pnx | Unkown or cannot be assessed |
T-Stage | N-Stage | M-Stage | Pn-Stage | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Stage 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Stage 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Stage 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Stage 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
any T | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
any T | any N | 1 | 0 | |
any T | any N | 0 | 1 |
Treatment
Surgery alone | Multi-modal treatment | Radiotherapy alone | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Surgery + C12 | Surgery + photons | C12 | Photons | ||
Stage 1 | 2 (29) | 0 (0) | 2 (17) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) |
Stage 2 | 1 (14) | 0 (0) | 3 (25) | 1 (17) | 1 (8) |
Stage 3 | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 1 (8) | 0 (0) | 4 (33) |
Stage 4 | 4 (57) | 1 (100) | 6 (50) | 5 (83) | 7 (59) |
Overall | 7 (100) | 1 (100) | 12 (100) | 6 (100) | 12 (100) |
Carbon ion only (PTV1) | |||||
PTV1 (Gy RBE)
|
Dpf (Gy RBE)
|
PTV2 (Gy RBE)
|
Dpf (Gy RBE)
|
TD (Gy)
|
(n = 2)
|
60 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
60
| 1 |
63 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
63
| 1 |
Photons (PTV1) with Carbon ion Boost (PTV2) | |||||
PTV1 (Gy)
|
Dpf (Gy)
|
PTV2 (Gy RBE)
|
Dpf (Gy RBE)
|
(n = 5)
| |
50 | 2 | 18 | 3 |
68
| 1 |
54 | 2 | 18 | 3 |
72
| 1 |
50 | 2 | 24 | 3 |
74
| 2 |
50.4 | 1.8 | 24 | 3 |
74.4
| 1 |
Photons (PTV1) with Brachytherapy Boost (PTV2) | |||||
PTV1 (Gy)
|
Dpf (Gy)
|
PTV2 (Gy)
|
Dpf (Gy)
|
(n = 2)
| |
50 | 2 | 15 | 5 |
65
| 2 |
Photons only (PTV1 and PTV2) | |||||
PTV1 (Gy)
|
Dpf (Gy)
|
PTV2 (Gy)
|
Dpf (Gy)
|
(n = 22)
| |
46 | 2 | 10 | 2 |
56
| 1 |
46 | 2 | 14.4 | 1.8 |
60.4
| 1 |
48 | 2 | – | – |
48
| 1 |
50 | 2 | – | – |
50
| 1 |
50 | 2 | 8 | 2 |
58
| 2 |
50 | 2 | 13.8 | 2.3 |
63.8
| 1 |
50 | 2 | 16 | 2 |
66
| 8 |
50 | 2 | 22 | 2 |
72
| 2 |
50 | 2 | 24 | 2 |
74
| 1 |
50.4 | 1.8 | 9 | 1.8 |
59.4
| 3 |
54 | 1.8 | 72 (SIB) | 2,4 (SIB) |
72
| 1 |
Survival and local control
Surgery alone | Multi-modal treatment | Radiotherapy alone | Overall | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Surgery + C12 | Surgery + photons | C12 | Photons | ||||
OS | 1-year | 100 | 100 | 92 | 100 | 100 | 95 |
5-year | 100 | n.a. | 92 | n.a. | 100 | 95 | |
10-year | 80 | n.a. | 82 | n.a. | 83 | 81 | |
FFLP | 1-year | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
5-year | 100 | n.a. | 100 | n.a. | 86 | 96 | |
10-year | 100 | n.a. | 100 | n.a. | 43 | 83 | |
FFDP | 1-year | 100 | 100 | 91 | 100 | 91 | 94 |
5-year | 80 | n.a. | 61 | n.a. | 76 | 69 | |
10-year | 60 | n.a. | 61 | n.a. | 38 | 53 |