4/2020
vol. 12
abstract:
Review paper
INTERACTS (INTErventional Radiotherapy ACtive Teaching School) consensus conference on sarcoma interventional radiotherapy (brachytherapy) endorsed by AIRO (Italian Association of Radiotherapy and Clinical Oncology)
Valentina Lancellotta
1
,
Barbara Alicja Jereczek-Fossa
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8
,
Alessio Giuseppe Morganti
9
,
Maria Antonietta Gambacorta
1, 2, 3, 4, 5
,
Vincenzo Valentini
1, 2, 3, 4, 5
,
Stefano Maria Magrini
15
,
Consensus Conference Board
1.
UOC Radioterapia Oncologica, Dipartimento di Diagnostica per Immagini, Radioterapia Oncologica ed Ematologia, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy
2.
Department of Radiotherapy, IEO European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Milan, Italy
3.
Department of Radiation Oncology, Faculty of Medicina e Psicologia, Sant’Andrea Hospital, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy
4.
Former Deputy Chair of Interventional Radiotherapy AIRO working Group – IntraOperative RadioTherapy, Trieste, Italy
5.
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy
6.
Radiation Oncology Section, Department of Surgery and Biomedical Science, University of Perugia and Perugia General Hospital, Perugia, Italy
7.
Department of Radiation Oncology, Santissima Annunziata Hospital, Gabriele D’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy
8.
Department of Radiation Oncology, Santissima Annunziata Hospital, Gabriele D’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy; Department of Oncology and Hemato-oncology, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
9.
Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine – DIMES, University of Bologna, S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, Bologna, Italy
10.
Foundation Instituto Valenciano de Oncologia (I.V.O.), Valencia, Spain
11.
Department of Clinical Oncology, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester and Division of Cancer Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
12.
Radiotherapy Department, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
13.
Radiation Oncology Department, Azienda Ospedaliera San Camillo-Forlanini, Roma, Italy
14.
Radiation Oncology, IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino and Department of Health Science, University of Genoa, Italy
15.
Radiation Oncology Department, Ospedali Civili Hospital and Brescia University, Brescia, Italy
J Contemp Brachytherapy 2020; 12, 4: 397–404
Online publish date: 2020/08/21
Purpose To report the results of INTERACTS (INTErventional Radiotherapy ACtive Teaching School) consensus conference on sarcoma interventional radiotherapy (brachytherapy).
Material and methods An international board of multidisciplinary experts was invited to a consensus conference on the state-of-the-art of sarcoma interventional oncology during the 9th Rome INTER-MEETING (INTERventional Radiotherapy Multidisciplinary Meeting), proposing 3 statements for each one speech. At the end of each lecture, the entire group of experts was invited to vote with an electronic device. The preliminary results were presented and discussed at the end of the meeting, during a dedicated session. After the meeting, a survey was distributed within the consensus conference board to share and definitively vote the statements.
Results All the invited authors of the consensus conference board completed the final survey. All the 38 statements received more than 70% of agreement, 31 statements (82%) obtained an agreement of level higher or equal to 90%, 6 statements (15.8%) received an agreement level between 80% and 90%, and 1 statement (2.6%) had less than 80% of agreement.
Conclusions The consensus conference demonstrated that interventional radiotherapy must be considered by a multidisciplinary management of patients affected by sarcoma.
keywords:
interventional radiotherapy, brachytherapy, soft-tissue sarcoma
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