ArticleAdvances in radiation oncology2025
A Feasibility Study for Clinical Implementation of hypo fractionated SBRT Program at a Clinic in an LMIC Using Locally Designed Lung Phantom.
Article in Advances in radiation oncology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Purpose: This study aims to assess the feasibility of implementing a hypofractionated radiation therapy (HFRT) program at the Oncology Directorate of Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Ghana, addressing specific infrastructure limitations that hinder patient care and treatment efficiency. Hence, we conducted a feasibility study to start a HFRT lung stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) program using currently available resources. The goal is to alleviate the burden on patients and health care providers, particularly in the context of limited resources. Methods and Materials: A lung phantom was designed from locally sourced materials consisting of wood slabs to mimic the lung, a perspex tank filled with water for tissue equivalence, and a 3-cm diameter acrylic ball to simulate the tumor. A motion platform was also designed for the phantom to simulate patients breathing in the superior-inferior direction. We acquired 3 computed tomography (CT) scan data sets using a slow CT scan technique for target motions of 0 cm (no_target_motion), 0.5 cm (0.5-cm_target_motion), and 1 cm (1-cm_target_motion) displacements. Treatment plans were generated for each phantom CT image data set using 9-field 6-Mega-Voltage (MV) photon beams in the eclipse treatment planning system. We also generated a treatment plan using an actual patient CT data set to assess the doses to target in the lung and critical organs at risk during a typical lung SBRT treatment. The quality of each treatment plan was evaluated using the near maximum (D Results: We quantitatively assessed the quality of the phantom treatment plans by calculating the CI, HI, R Conclusions: Our results demonstrate that implementing HFRT using 3-dimensional conformal radiation therapy for lung SBRT is feasible with the current infrastructure of our institution. Although the proposed treatment plan is effective, future research on motion management and image guidance technologies is necessary to optimize treatment fidelity. These findings suggest that HFRT could be a viable option for addressing resource constraints in radiation therapy delivery in similar settings.
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.