How do you treat adrenal metastases with SBRT?
Adrenal glands move quite a bit with breathing. I would strongly recommend some form of motion management, either with breath hold, or 4DCT with abdominal compression, (the latter of which is my personal preference).
I draw GTV (just tumor, not entire adrenal gland) as defined on whatever imaging showed you the cancer, be that a CT with contrast or a PET/CT (have not had an MRI diagnosed adrenal tumor as of yet).
I then create an ITV on a 4DCT. I do slice by slice evaluation on a 4DCT rather than a MIP as there is no air to help differentiate. I do a PTV off of that, generally 5 mm in all directions. Similar to other SBRT cases, no CTV to account for microscopic disease.
Adrenal cases can be very tricky based on proximity of the small intes...
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Whole gland SBRT with a PTV margin on GTV (we use 5 mm), supine with motion management (LINAC with 4DCT), fuse PET/CT or MRI for tumor delineation, no fiducial markers. In our experience, 36 Gy in 3 fractions works well (Reshko et al., PMID 34277086). Here is a great meta-analysis that shows improved local control with higher BED: Chen et al., PMID 32001383.
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