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The Beamline Bulletin
Submissions from 2023
Low-risk meningioma: Initial outcomes from NRG Oncology/RTOG 0539, Minesh Mehta
Accelerated hypofractionated magnetic resonance-guided adaptive radiotherapy for oligoprogressive non-small cell lung cancer, Alonso La Rosa de los Rios, Kathryn Mittauer, Michael Chuong, Matthew Hall, Tugce Kutuk, Nema Bassiri-Gharb, James McCulloch, Diane Alvarez, Raul Herrera, Alonso Gutierrez, Ranjini Tolakanahalli, Minesh Mehta, and Rupesh Kotecha
Combination of EGFR-Directed Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors (EGFR-TKI) with Radiotherapy in Brain Metastases from Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: A 2010-2019 Retrospective Cohort Study, Shreya Saxena, Atulya Khosla, Ahmad Ozair, Rupesh Kotecha, and Manmeet Ahluwalia
Submissions from 2022
Radiosurgery for Gliomas, Minesh Mehta
Radiosurgery in Clinical Practice, Minesh Mehta
Clinical outcomes comparing radiosurgery techniques for managing large brain metastases, Tugce Kutuk, Rupesh Kotecha, Ranjini Tolakanahalli, Haley Appel, D Jay Wieczorek, Michael McDermott, Manmeet Ahluwalia, Alonso Gutierrez, Minesh Mehta, and Martin Tom
Goldilocks and the Three Doses of Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Brain Metastases, Tugce Kutuk, Rupesh Kotecha, Ranjini Tolakanahalli, Haley Appel, Matthew Hall, D Jay Wieczorek, Michael McDermott, Manmeet Ahluwalia, Alonso Gutierrez, Minesh Mehta, and Martin Tom
NRG-BN010: A Safety Run-In and Phase II Study Evaluating the Efficacy, Safety, and Impact on the Tumor Microenvironment of the Combination of Tocilizumab, Atezolizumab, and Fractionated Stereotactic Radiotherapy in Recurrent Glioblastoma, Rupesh Kotecha and Minesh Mehta
Role of Radiotherapy in Brain Metastases from Lung Cancer, Minesh Mehta
Feasibility study of utilizing Sphinx Compact for quality assurance in uniform scanning proton therapy, Suresh Rana
An optimal solution study on the Leksell Gamma Knife® LightningTM optimizer for stereotactic radiosurgery of single brain metastasis, Rupesh Kotecha, D Jay Wieczorek, Martin Tom, Matthew Hall, Michael McDermott, Minesh Mehta, Alonso Gutierrez, and Ranjini Tolakanahalli
Dedicated Isotropic 3-D T1 SPACE Sequence Imaging for Radiosurgery Planning Improves Brain Metastases Detection and Reduces the Risk of Intracranial Relapse, Tugce Kutuk, Kevin Abrams, Martin Tom, Muni Rubens, Haley Appel, Matthew Hall, Ranjini Tolakanahalli, D Jay Wieczorek, Alonso Gutierrez, Michael McDermott, Manmeet Ahluwalia, Minesh Mehta, and Rupesh Kotecha
Does Hippocampal Atrophy Correlate with Neurocognitive Outcomes One Year Following Radiotherapy? Results from a Prospective Trial, Matthew Hall, Katherine Von Werne, Muni Rubens, Rupesh Kotecha, Alexander Mohler, Yazmin Odia, Noah Kalman, Kevin Abrams, Andrew Wroe, Alonso Gutierrez, Michael Chuong, and Minesh Mehta
Evaluation of low dose rate intensity modulated proton therapy for re-irradiation of CNS malignancies, Andrew Wroe, Zachary Fellows, Tugce Kutuk, Minesh Mehta, Rupesh Kotecha, and Alonso Gutierrez
Feasibility and Initial Results of a Daily Wearable Patient-Tracking Device for Optimization of Radiation Machine Utilization and Timely Treatment Delivery, Adeel Kaiser, Lorrie Legrand, Maria Valladares, Michael Chuong, Rupesh Kotecha, Matthew Hall, Alonso Gutierrez, and Minesh Mehta
Impact of Treatment Modality on Post‐Radiation Imaging in Post‐Operative Head and Neck Cancers, Michael Chuong, Jessika Contreras, Matthew Hall, Alonso Gutierrez, Adeel Kaiser, Rupesh Kotecha, Andrew Wroe, and Noah Kalman
Longitudinal Assessment of Gross Tumor Volume in Abdominal and Pelvic Patients Undergoing MR-Guided Online Adaptive Radiotherapy as a Predictive Biomarker of Treatment Response, Kathryn Mittauer, Robert Herrera, Adeel Kaiser, Jessika Contreras, Matthew Hall, Noah Kalman, Tino Romaguera, James McCulloch, Diane Alvarez, Alonso Gutierrez, Minesh Mehta, Michael Chuong, and Rupesh Kotecha
Management of Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices for Patients Receiving MR-Guided Radiotherapy: 4-Year Single Institution Experience, James McCulloch, Robert Herrera, Alonso Gutierrez, Tino Romaguera, Diane Alvarez, Rupesh Kotecha, Adeel Kaiser, Kevin Abrams, Minesh Mehta, Michael Chuong, and Kathryn Mittauer
Master Class: Role Playing Exercise as an Educational Tool for Professional Career Preparation, Minesh Mehta
Multi-Institutional Experience of MR-guided Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy for Adrenal Gland Metastases, Rupesh Kotecha, Robert Herrera, Tugce Kutuk, and Michael Chuong
Prophylactic Radiation Therapy versus Standard of Care for Patients with High-Risk Asymptomatic Bone Metastases: A Multicenter, Randomized Phase II Trial, Rupesh Kotecha and Zhenwei Zhang
Pulsed reduced dose rate (PRDR) intensity-modulated radiotherapy for recurrent primary central nervous system malignancies: dosimetric and clinical results, Tugce Kutuk, Nicole McAllister, Matthew Hall, Martin Tom, Haley Appel, Ranjini Tolakanahalli, Alonso Gutierrez, Yazmin Odia, Alexander Mohler, Manmeet Ahluwalia, Minesh Mehta, and Rupesh Kotecha
Quantifying Success of a Daily Multidisciplinary Huddle in Radiation Oncology, Lorrie LeGrand, Tugce Kutuk, Maria Valladares, Muni Rubens, Monique Chisem, Gabriela Quintana, Haley Appel, Michael Chuong, Matthew Hall, Jessika Contreras, Marcio Fagundes, Alonso Gutierrez, Minesh Mehta, and Rupesh Kotecha
The Impact of Smaller Thyroid Gland Volume on the Risk of Developing Post-RT Hypothyroidism in Breast Cancer Patients Requiring Comprehensive Nodal Irradiation, Rupesh Kotecha, Tugce Kutuk, Andrew Wroe, Alonso Gutierrez, Minesh Mehta, and Marcio Fagundes
Stereotactic Radiosurgery in Clinical Practice: What are the Questions We Should be Asking?, Minesh Mehta
Interesting Case Presentation: Giant Sacral Chordomas, Minesh Mehta
Brain metastases: A Society for Neuro-Oncology (SNO) consensus review on current management and future directions, Manmeet Ahluwalia and Minesh Mehta
Update on the Management of Brain Metastasis, Karanvir Singh, Shreya Saxena, Atulya Khosla, Michael McDermott, Rupesh Kotecha, and Manmeet Ahluwalia
Shaping the Landscape of Brain Metastases Research, Minesh Mehta
Shaping the Landscape of Brain Metastases Research: What Matters Most to Patients, Minesh Mehta
Providing Patients’ Tomorrow’s Care Today: Rapidly Bringing Discovery to the Bedside, Minesh Mehta
Phase I dose escalation and expansion trial of single agent ONC201 in pediatric diffuse midline gliomas following radiotherapy, Yazmin Odia, Doured Daghistani, Zuanel Diaz, and Matthew Hall
Clinical Trials Lessons Learned, Minesh Mehta
From Bench to Bedside to Beam: Radiotherapy Advances for Brain Tumors., Minesh Mehta
Effect of frailty on hospital outcomes among patients with cancer in the United States: Results from the National Inpatient Sample, Muni Rubens, Adrian Cristian, Venkataraghavan Ramamoorthy, Anshul Saxena, Peter McGranaghan, Raees Tonse, and Emir Veledar
The Graded Prognostic Assessment (GPA) for Lung Cancer Patients with Brain Metastases: Initial Report of the Small Cell Lung Cancer GPA and Update of the Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer GPA including the Effect of Programmed Death Ligand-1 (PD-L1) and Other Prognostic Factors, Tugce Kutuk, Rupesh Kotecha, Manmeet Ahluwalia, and Minesh Mehta
Multimodality Approaches to Primary and Secondary Brain Tumors, Minesh Mehta
Radiation therapy alone versus radiation therapy plus radiofrequency ablation/vertebral augmentation for spine metastasis: trial in progress, Rupesh Kotecha, Brian Schiro, Justin Sporrer, Muni Rubens, Haley Appel, Martin Tom, and Minesh Mehta
Pearls and Pitfalls in Conducting Neuro-Oncology Trials: Reflections of Experienced Clinical Trialists, Minesh Mehta
Feasibility of Tumor Treating Fields with Pemetrexed and Platinum-Based Chemotherapy for Unresectable Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma: Single-Center, Real-World Data, Tugce Kutuk, Haley Appel, Federico Albrecht, Paul Kaywin, Suyen Ramos, Minesh Mehta, and Rupesh Kotecha
Keynote B36: Open-label study of first-line tumor treating fields (150kHz) plus pembrolizumab for non-small cell lung cancer, Rupesh Kotecha
Multi-Institutional Patterns of Use and Compliance with Tumor Treating Fields for Patients with Unresectable Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma, Tugce Kutuk and Rupesh Kotecha
Phase II Trial of Concurrent Durvalumab and Radiation Therapy for Locally Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Pre-Planned Interim Analysis, Federico Albrecht, Rupesh Kotecha, and Zhenwei Zhang
Evaluation of Surface Dose Prediction Accuracy of Precision Radixact Tomotherapy Treatment Planning System Using OSL Nanodots, Shyam Pokharel, Suresh Rana, Michael Kasper, Samuel Richter, and Awens Alphonse
Investigating Dose-Average Linear Energy Transfer (LETd) in Prostate Cancer Patients with Unilateral and Bilateral Metallic Hips, Michael Kasper and Suresh Rana
Impact of Frailty on Hospital Outcomes Among Patients with Lymphoid Malignancies Receiving Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation in the United States, Muni Rubens, Adrian Cristian, Venkataraghavan Ramamoorthy, Marco Ruiz Andia, Anshul Saxena, Peter McGranaghan, Raees Tonse, and Emir Veledar
Radiation Therapy for Borderline Resectable Pancreas Cancer: More to Come or Yesterday's News?, Michael Chuong
Real-time Adaptive Proton Radiotherapy Now, Is it Overkill?, Minesh Mehta
Future Outlook for Proton Therapy, Minesh Mehta
Volumetric Computation of Post-Radiotherapy Hippocampal Atrophy as a Function of Radiation Dose: Results from a Prospective Trial, Matthew Hall, Katherine Von Werne, Alexander Mohler, Rupesh Kotecha, Noah Kalman, Martin Tom, Andrew Wroe, Alonso Gutierrez, and Minesh Mehta
Induction Chemotherapy and Ablative Stereotactic Magnetic Resonance Image-Guided Adaptive Radiation Therapy for Inoperable Pancreas Cancer, Michael Chuong; Roberto Herrera; Adeel Kaiser; Muni Rubens; Tino Romaguera; Diane Alvarez; Rupesh Kotecha; Matthew Hall; James McCulloch; Antonio Ucar; Santiago Aparo; Sarah Joseph; Horacio Asbun; Ramon Jimenez; Govindarajan Narayanan; Alonso Gutierrez; and Kathryn , Mittauer
Single vs. Multi Room – What’s Best for the Future?, Suresh Rana
Estimation of the Maximum Number of Lesions Able to be Treated with Single Session Stereotactic Radiosurgery with Contemporary Planning Systems, Ranjini Tolakanahalli, D Jay Wieczorek, Matthew Hall, Martin Tom, Michael McDermott, Alonso Gutierrez, and Rupesh Kotecha
Immune checkpoint inhibitor and MR-guided radiation “booster shot” in situ tumor vaccination in patients with limited metastatic carcinoma: interim analysis of a single-arm phase 2 trial, Michael Chuong, Noah Kalman, Federico Albrecht, Paul Kaywin, Guilherme Rabinowits, Carolina Rojas, Minesh Mehta, and Rupesh Kotecha
Induction chemotherapy and ablative 5-fraction stereotactic magnetic resonance guided adaptive radiation therapy for patients with initially inoperable adenocarcinoma of the pancreas, Michael Chuong, Robert Herrera, Muni Rubens, Adeel Kaiser, Rupesh Kotecha, Matthew Hall, James McCulloch, Antonio Ucar, Fernando De Zarraga, Santiago Aparo, Horacio Asbun, Domenech Asbun, Ramon Jimenez, Govindarajan Narayanan, Tino Romaguera, Diane Alvarez, Alonso Gutierrez, and Kathryn Mittauer
How did we Arrive at the Current Mangement Standard for Malignant Glioma?, Minesh Mehta
Phase I Study of Accelerated Hypofractionated Proton Therapy and Chemotherapy for Locally Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer, Jessika Contreras
Change in Hippocampus Volume as a Function of Radiation Dose: Results from a Prospective Trial with Standardized Imaging and Morphometric Evaluation. Change in Hippocampus Volume as a Function of Radiation Dose: Results from a Prospective Trial with Standardized Imaging and Morphometric Evaluation, Matthew Hall, Yazmin Odia, Katherine Von Werne, Alexander Mohler, Rupesh Kotecha, Noah Kalman, Martin Tom, Kevin Abrams, Michael Chuong, Andrew Wroe, Alonso Gutierrez, and Minesh Mehta
Updates in CNS Tumor Trials: What Will it Take to Change Practice, Minesh Mehta
Effect of translational and rotational errors on NTCP and TCP in PBS proton plans for comprehensive breast cancer irradiation, Shyam Pokharel, Suresh Rana, and Michael Kasper
Comparison of Local Control for Brain Metastases Treated with Zero-Margin Mask-Based Immobilization Stereotactic Radiosurgery to Immobilization with a Stereotactic Frame, Tugce Kutuk, Rupesh Kotecha, Ranjini Tolakanahalli, Haley Appel, Matthew Hall, D Jay Wieczorek, Michael McDermott, Manmeet Ahluwalia, Alonso Gutierrez, Minesh Mehta, and Martin Tom
Radiobiology of Altered Fractionation and Proton Therapy, Minesh Mehta
Dedicated SRS imaging improves brain metastases detection and reduces the intracranial relapse risk, Rupesh Kotecha, Tugce Kutuk, Kevin Abrams, Martin Tom, Haley Appel, Matthew Hall, D Jay Wieczorek, Michael McDermott, Manmeet Ahluwalia, Minesh Mehta, and Ranjini Tolakanahalli
CROSSing into New Therapies for Esophageal Cancer, Michael Chuong
Evaluation of a prospective radiation oncology departmental team review process using standardized simulation directives, Tugce Kutuk, Maria Valladares, Muni Rubens, Monique Chisem, Gabriela Quintana, Haley Appel, Michael Chuong, Matthew Hall, Jessika Contreras, Marcio Fagundes, Alonso Gutierrez, Minesh Mehta, Rupesh Kotecha, and Lorrie Legrand
Executive summary of american radium society's appropriate use criteria for the postoperative management of lower grade gliomas, Martin Tom and Manmeet Ahluwalia
Submandibular gland transfer for the prevention of radiation-induced xerostomia in oropharyngeal cancer: Dosimetric impact in the intensity modulated radiotherapy era, Tugce Kutuk, Nicole McAllister, Amy Rzepczynski, Geoffrey Young, Megan Crawley, Guilherme Rabinowits, Adeel Kaiser, Jessika Contreras, and Noah Kalman
Role of Proton Therapy in Radiation Oncology, Minesh Mehta
Where is Proton Therapy Headed?, Minesh Mehta
Proton Arc de Triomphe, Minesh Mehta
Randomized Trials of Proton Therapy, Minesh Mehta
A Multicenter Observational Study of Cs-131 Seeds Embedded in a Collagen Carrier Tile in the Intracranial Brain Neoplasms – Protocol in Progress, Michael McDermott and Rupesh Kotecha
AAPM task group report 302: Surface guided radiotherapy, Alonso Gutierrez
AAPM task group report 302: Surface-guided radiotherapy, Alonso Gutierrez
In Reply to Struikmans et al, Marcio Fagundes
Is breast conservation superior to mastectomy in early stage triple negative breast cancer?, Joseph Panoff
The dosimetric enhancement of GRID profiles using an external collimator in pencil beam scanning proton therapy, Jen Yu and Alonso Gutierrez
Phase I Dose Escalation Trial Combining Olaparib and Thoracic Radiation Therapy in Extensive-Stage Small Cell Lung Cancer, Rupesh Kotecha and Federico Albrecht
A Highly-Efficient Planning and Delivery Method for Proton Spatially Fractionated Radiation Therapy, Alonso Gutierrez and Andrew Wroe
Chordomas: Beyond Protons, Minesh Mehta
Clinical Trials for Adult Brain Tumors: Updates & Ongoing NRG/RTOG Trials for Brain Metastases and Primary CNS Tumors, Minesh Mehta
Radiobiology of Radioablation, Minesh Mehta
Evaluation of the impact of pre-operative stereotactic radiotherapy on the acute changes in histopathologic and immune marker profiles of brain metastases, Rupesh Kotecha, Raees Tonse, Miguel Ramirez Menendez, Zuanel Diaz, Martin Tom, Matthew Hall, Minesh Mehta, Vitaly Siomin, Yazmin Odia, Manmeet Ahluwalia, and Michael McDermott
Radiobiology of Radiosurgery and Radioablation: Beyond the 5 Rs, Minesh Mehta
Hospitalization rates from radiotherapy complications in the United States, Raees Tonse, Venkataraghavan Ramamoorthy, Muni Rubens, Anshul Saxena, Peter McGranaghan, Emir Veledar, Matthew Hall, Michael Chuong, Manmeet Ahluwalia, Minesh Mehta, and Rupesh Kotecha
Analysis of potential time saving in brain arteriovenous malformation stereotactic radiosurgery planning using a new software platform, Guilherme Dabus, Rupesh Kotecha, Italo Linfante, D Jay Wieczorek, Alonso Gutierrez, John Candela, and Michael McDermott