EBRO 2017

Radiotherapy technique

OAR: Spinal cord

EBRO 2017

• Spinal cord injury rare but extremely debilitating

paralysis, sensory, deficits, pain, and bowel/bladder incontinence

• Schultheiss review: risk of myelopathy to be 0.2% at 50 Gy and 5% at 59.3 Gy

• Similar conclusions published by QUANTEC

Schultheiss TE, Kun LE, Ang KK, et al. Radiation response of the central nervous system. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 1995;31:1093–1112.