Variation in clinical target volume delineation in postoperative radiotherapy for biliary tract cancer

Taeryool Koo; Kwang Ho Cheong; Kyubo Kim; Hae Jin Park; Younghee Park; Hyeon Kang Koh; Byoung Hyuck Kim; Eunji Kim; Kyung Su Kim; Jin Hwa Choi

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Variation in clinical target volume delineation in postoperative radiotherapy for biliary tract cancer

Taeryool Koo, Kwang Ho Cheong, Kyubo Kim, Hae Jin Park, Younghee Park, Hyeon Kang Koh, Byoung Hyuck Kim, Eunji Kim, Kyung Su Kim, Jin Hwa Choi

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We aimed to evaluate the inter-clinician variability in the clinical target volume (CTV) for postoperative radiotherapy (PORT) for biliary tract cancer (BTC) including extrahepatic bile duct cancer (EBDC) and gallbladder cancer (GBC). Nine experienced radiation oncologists delineated PORT CTVs for distal EBDC (pT2N1), proximal EBDC (pT2bN1) and GBC (pT2bN1) patients. The expectation maximization algorithm for Simultaneous Truth and Performance Level Estimation (STAPLE) was used to quantify expert agreements. We generated volumes with a confidence level of 80% to compare the maximum distance to each CTV in six directions. The degree of agreement was moderate; overall kappa values were 0.573 for distal EBDC, 0.513 for proximal EBDC, and 0.511 for GBC. In the distal EBDC, a larger variation was noted in the right, post, and inferior direction. In the proximal EBDC, all borders except the right and left direction showed a larger variation. In the GBC, a larger variation was found in the anterior, posterior, and inferior direction. The posterior and inferior borders were the common area having discrepancies, associated with the insufficient coverage of the paraaortic node. A consensus guideline is needed to reduce inter-clinician variability in the CTVs and adequate coverage of regional lymph node area.

Original language	English
Article number	e0273395
Journal	PLoS ONE
Volume	17
Issue number	9 September
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0273395
State	Published - Sep 2022

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This study was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIT) (No. 2021R1A2C1013797, which was received by KK. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. There was no additional external funding received for this study.

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Copyright: © 2022 Koo et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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Variation in clinical target volume delineation in postoperative radiotherapy for biliary tract cancer

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