Radiation Oncology

Ocular Oncology

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How would you approach a patient with vitreoretinal lymphoma without CNS or systemic involvement?

What would be your RT volumes and dose?

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Would you consider SBRT for an intraocular/choroidal metastasis?

If so, what dose/fractionation and constraints would you recommend?

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When should proton beam therapy be considered for uveal melanoma?

Are there exclusion criteria?

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How do you account for tumor growth from pre-operative to intra-operative ultrasound for uveal melanoma?

Do you prescribe to 5mm/apex or use a margin? Do you add time for tumor growth or allow less than the prescription dose to the apex?

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When is postoperative radiation indicated after enucleation of an ocular melanoma?

Is extrascleral extension or optic nerve invasion an indication? I can find little in the literature or textbooks discussing this issue, likely ...

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Ophthalmology, 2002-10

Late radiation failures after iodine 125 brachytherapy for uveal melanoma compared with charged-particle (proton or helium ion) therapy.

Archives of ophthalmology (Chicago, Ill. : 1960), 2002-12

Evidence-based estimates of outcome in patients irradiated for intraocular melanoma.

Am. J. Ophthalmol.,

The Collaborative Ocular Melanoma Study (COMS) randomized trial of pre-enucleation radiation of large choroidal melanoma: IV. Ten-year mortality findings and prognostic factors. COMS report number 24.

International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics, 2001-03-15

Proton radiation therapy for medium and large choroidal melanoma: preservation of the eye and its functionality.

Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys., 2017 Feb 17

Stereotactic Radiosurgery and Fractionated Stereotactic Radiation Therapy for the Treatment of Uveal Melanoma.

Br J Ophthalmol, 2013 Jan 19

A comparison between ¹²⁵Iodine brachytherapy and stereotactic radiotherapy in the management of juxtapapillary choroidal melanoma.

JAMA Ophthalmol,

Retrospective evaluation of patients with uveal melanoma treated by stereotactic radiosurgery with and without tumor resection.

International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics, 2013-05-01

Charged particle radiation therapy for uveal melanoma: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics, 2017-01-01

Temporal Evolution and Dose-Volume Histogram Predictors of Visual Acuity After Proton Beam Radiation Therapy of Uveal Melanoma.

International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics, 2015-06-01

Long-term Results of the UCSF-LBNL Randomized Trial: Charged Particle With Helium Ion Versus Iodine-125 Plaque Therapy for Choroidal and Ciliary Body Melanoma.

Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys.,

Maximizing local tumor control and survival after proton beam radiotherapy of uveal melanoma.

Investigative ophthalmology & visual science, 2006-11

Proton beam irradiation of uveal melanomas: the first 30 years. The Weisenfeld Lecture.

PloS one, 2015

Cost-effectiveness of proton beam therapy for intraocular melanoma.

Br J Ophthalmol, 2013 May 03

Local treatment failure after globe-conserving therapy for choroidal melanoma.

Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 2016 Jan 28

Practice Patterns Analysis of Ocular Proton Therapy Centers: The International OPTIC Survey.

Saudi J Ophthalmol,

Proton beam radiotherapy of uveal melanoma.

Am J Clin Oncol,

Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis on the Use of Photon-based Stereotactic Radiosurgery Versus Fractionated Stereotactic Radiotherapy for the Treatment of Uveal Melanoma.

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