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Table 1 Clinical, technical and dosimetric data

From: High-dose rate brachytherapy in localized penile cancer: short-term clinical outcome analysis

Data

Median

Min - Max

Age (year)

77

[47–84]

Tumour size (mm)

25

[9–32]

Pre-op IPSS

2

[0–18]

Pre-op IIEF5

16

[5–25]

Time interval S/B (months)

120

[18–364]

Follow-up (months)

27

[5.1 - 83]

Total delivered dose (Gy)

38.5

[34–43]

EQD2αβ3 (Gy)

57.5

[47–68]

EQD2αβ10 (Gy)

46

[41–54]

Dose/f (Gy)

4

[3.5 - 4.5]

# of fractions

9

[7–10]

# needles

9

[3–12]

# plans

3

[3]

CTV (cc)

12.1

[4–42]

D90 (%)

106

[83–118]

V100 (%)

93

[78–99]

V150 (%)

40.5

[29–57]

V200 (%)

15

[11–22]

DHI

0.5

[0.46 - 0.67]

D10u (%)

126

[59–217]

D30u (%)

115

[27–177]

  1. Pre-op IPSS: pre-operative International Prostate Symptom Score; Pre-op IIEF5: pre-operative International Index of Erectile Function; Time interval S/B: Time interval between surgery and brachytherapy; EQD2αβ3: equivalent dose at 2 Gy for normal tissues (αβ3); EQD2αβ10: equivalent dose at 2 Gy for tumour (αβ10); Dose/f: dose per fraction; # of fractions: total number of fraction; # Needles: total number of needles; # Plans: total number of plans; CTV: clinical target volume; D90: dose delivered to 90% of CTV expressed in percentage of the prescribed dose; V100: CTV receiving 100% of the prescribed dose expressed in percentage; V150: CTV receiving 150% of the prescribed dose expressed in percentage; V200: CTV receiving 200% of the prescribed dose expressed in percentage; DHI: Dose Homogeneity Index = [V100 – V150]/V100; D10u: dose delivered to 10 cc of the urethral volume expressed in percentage of the prescribed dose; D30u: dose delivered to 30 cc of the urethral volume expressed in percentage of the prescribed dose.