‘Plan of the day’ adaptive radiotherapy for bladder cancer using helical tomotherapy

Background and purpose This study assessed the potential of tomotherapy based Image Guided Radiotherapy (IGRT) to increase the accuracy of bladder irradiation using a ‘plan of the day’ adaptive radiotherapy (ART) technique. Materials and methods Ten patients with muscle invasive bladder cancer underwent bladder preservation with trimodality therapy in an ongoing trial. All patients received 64 Gy/32# to the whole bladder and seven of them...