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NRG Oncology Protocol Development Template for Radiation Therapy — Gastrointestinal Cancer: Esophageal Cancer
Parker W, Yock A, Lin SH, Li H · NRG Oncology Medical Physics Subcommittee / Radiation Oncology Committee
DoseLab summary
The template NRG Oncology gives investigators for the radiation therapy section of an esophageal trial, using a 50.4 Gy in 28 fraction photon-versus-proton example. It requires motion assessment at simulation, encourages a treatment-position FDG-PET/CT, prefers whole-body PET/CT to help define the volumes, and explains why a maximum-intensity projection should not be used to build the IGTV. Values in it are examples to be edited for each trial.
Why this is useful
NRG's model radiation section for an esophageal trial: motion assessment with 4DCT, PET/CT in the treatment position, IGTV construction and structure names.
Reference details
- Title
- NRG Oncology Protocol Development Template for Radiation Therapy — Gastrointestinal Cancer: Esophageal Cancer
- Authors / organization
- Parker W, Yock A, Lin SH, Li H · NRG Oncology Medical Physics Subcommittee / Radiation Oncology Committee
- Publication / protocol
- NRG Oncology protocol template
- Version
- Version 2, 23 April 2020
- Year
- 2020
- DOI
- Pending verification
- Disease sites
- GI
- Topics
- Esophagus, NRG, Protocols, Image registration, Motion, 4DCT, Structure naming
- Fractionation context
- Example: 50.4 Gy / 28 fx (photons or protons)
- Last reviewed by DoseLab
- 2026-09-29