The advantage of 3D conformal treatment of lumbar spine metastases in comparison to traditional PA or AP-PA techniques: restoring an intermediate niche of therapeutic sophistication

Table 1 Patients’ characteristics

Treated vertebrae	Diagnosis	Gender	Age	Number
L2-L4	Carcinoid	Female	60	1
L2-L5	Lung Ca	Male	77	2
D10-L2	Lung Ca	Male	48	3
D10-L2	Breast Ca	Female	44	4
L1-L3	Prostate Ca	Male	83	5
L1-L5	Breast Ca	Female	70	6
L1-L3	Prostate Ca	Male	76	7
L3-L5	Lung ca	Male	77	8
L1-L4	Prostate Ca	Male	87	9
L1-S1	Lung	Male	71	10