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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Radiother Oncol. 2014 Jan 17;110(3):505–510. doi: 10.1016/j.radonc.2013.11.017

Table 2.

Treatment details.

Treatment courses n (%)
  EBRT then SBRT 23 (70)
  SBRT then SBRT 7 (21)
  SBRT then EBRT 3 (9)
Median interval between courses (range) 18 months (6–61)
Data for first XRT course
All patients (n = 33)
  Median dose all patients (range) 60 Gy (22.5–80.5 Gy)
  Median number of fractions (range) 30 (1–37)
Patients treated initially with SBRT (n = 10, 30%)
  Median dose (range) 50 Gy (22.5–60 Gy)
  Median number of fractions (range) 5 (1–5)
  Fractionation schemes (dose/fraction) n (%)
    54 Gy in 3 fractions (18 Gy) 3 (30)
    50 Gy in 5 fractions (10 Gy) 3 (30)
    40 Gy in 5 fractions (8 Gy) 1 (10)
    60 Gy in 3 fractions (20 Gy) 1 (10)
    22.5 Gy in a single fraction 2 (20)
Patients treated initially with EBRT (n = 23, 70%)
  Median dose (range) 66 Gy (45–80.5 Gy)
  Median number of fractions (range) 33 (28–37)
  Chemotherapy 16 (70% of EBRT group)
    Concurrent 14 (61% of EBRT group
    Sequential 2 (29% of EBRT group)
Data for retreatment course*
All patients (n = 33)
  Median dose all patients (range) 50 Gy (20–70.2 Gy)
  Median number of fractions (range) 10 (1–35)
Patients retreated with SBRT (n = 30, 91%)
  Median dose (range) 50 Gy (20–54 Gy)
  Median number of fractions (range) 5 (1–10)
  Fractionation schemes (dose/fraction) n (% of SBRT patients)
    50 Gy in 10 fractions (5 Gy) 14 (47)
    40 Gy in 5 fractions (8 Gy) 3 (10)
    54 Gy in 3 fractions (18 Gy) 2 (7)
    50 Gy in 5 fractions (10 Gy) 2 (7)
    36 Gy in 2 fractions (18 Gy) 2 (7)
    35 Gy in 5 fractions (7 Gy) 1 (3)
    26 Gy in 2 fractions (13 Gy) 1 (3)
    20–22.5 Gy in a single fraction 5 (17)
Patients retreated with EBRT (n = 3, 9%)
  Doses for all 3 patients 66 Gy – 70 Gy – 70.2 Gy
  Number of fractions 33 – 35 – 26
*

Includes 5 patients treated with >2 courses of XRT.