Neoadjuvant Short-course Hypofractionated PBT for Non-metastatic RPS

Who can take part

• Adult patients (≥18 years of age)
• Patients with primary non-recurrent retroperitoneal sarcoma
• Calculated creatinine clearance ≥50 mL/min and functional contralateral kidney based on nuclear medicine renal scan
• Normal bone marrow function (WBC ≥ 4 x109 /L)
• Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group status ≤ 2
• Cardiac function ≤ New York Heart Association class II
• Proton beam therapy approved by insurance (including Medicare/Medicaid)

Who cannot take part

• Evidence of metastatic disease on staging CT of chest/abdomen/pelvis
• History of abdominal or pelvic radiation therapy
• History of systemic lupus erythematosus or ulcerative colitis
• Genetic syndrome with radiation-associated tumorigenicity (i.e.: Li-Fraumeni)
• Co-existing malignancy or treated malignancy in the last 2 years expected to limit life expectancy; does not include completely resected cutaneous basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, in situ breast or cervical malignancies, or other pathologies at the discretion of the investigators
• Inability to tolerate supine position for duration of PBT simulation or treatment
• Tumor originating from gastrointestinal or gynecologic organs
• Specific sarcoma histologies including osteosarcoma, desmoid tumors, chondrosarcoma arising from vertebrae or pelvic bones, embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma
• Tumor extending into femoral or obturator canal
• Presence of clinically significant ascites