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This case series details the authors\u2019 preliminary experience in re-irradiating 7 complex primary intracranial tumors, which were considered to have been previously maximally radiated and situated adjacent to critical organs at risk.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec>\n<jats:title>METHODS<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>The authors retrospectively reviewed all patients who received fractionated re-irradiation using GKI at the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, between 2016 and 2021. Patients with brain metastases, and those who received radiotherapy courses in 5 or fewer fractions, were excluded. All radiotherapy doses were converted to the equivalent total dose in 2-Gy fractions (EQD2), with the assumption of an \u03b1\/\u03b2 ratio of 2 for late normal tissue toxicity and 10 for the tumor.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec>\n<jats:title>RESULTS<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>A total of 7 patients were included in this case series. Three patients had recurrent meningiomas, as well as 1 patient each with ependymoma, intracranial sarcoma, pituitary macroadenoma, and papillary pineal tumor. Six patients had undergone prior linear accelerator\u2013based conventional fractionated radiotherapy and 1 patient had undergone prior proton therapy. Patients were re-irradiated with a median (range) total dose of 50.4 (30\u201363.4) Gy delivered in a median (range) of 28 (10\u201338) fractions with GKI. The median (range) target volume was 6.58 (0.2\u201346.3) cm<jats:sup>3<\/jats:sup>. The median (range) cumulative mean EQD2 administered to the tumor was 121.1 (107.9\u2013181.3) Gy, and the median (range) maximum point EQD2 administered to the brainstem, optic nerves, and optic chiasm were 91.6 (74.0\u2013111.5) Gy, 58.9 (6.3\u2013102.9) Gy, and 59.9 (36.7\u2013127.3) Gy, respectively. At a median (range) follow-up of 15 (6\u201342) months, 6 of 7 patients were alive with 4 having locally controlled disease. Only 3 patients experienced treatment-related toxicities, which were self-limited.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec>\n<jats:title>CONCLUSIONS<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>Fractionated radiotherapy using GKI may be a safe and effective method for the re-irradiation of complex progressive primary intracranial tumors, where the aim is to minimize the potential for serious late effects.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3171\/2022.6.jns22998","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,8,24]],"date-time":"2022-08-24T19:49:45Z","timestamp":1661370585000},"page":"674-682","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["Conventionally fully fractionated Gamma Knife Icon re-irradiation of primary recurrent intracranial tumors: the first report indicating feasibility and safety"],"prefix":"10.3171","volume":"138","author":[{"given":"Michael","family":"Yan","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Radiation Oncology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre;"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Lori","family":"Holden","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Radiation Oncology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre;"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jay","family":"Detsky","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Radiation Oncology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre;"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Chia-Lin","family":"Tseng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Radiation Oncology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre;"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Hany","family":"Soliman","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Radiation Oncology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre;"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Sten","family":"Myrehaug","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Radiation Oncology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre;"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Zain","family":"Husain","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Radiation Oncology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre;"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Sunit","family":"Das","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Neurosurgery, St. Michael\u2019s Hospital;"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Collins","family":"Yeboah","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medical Physics, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre; and"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Nir","family":"Lipsman","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Neurosurgery, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Mark","family":"Ruschin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medical Physics, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre; and"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Arjun","family":"Sahgal","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Radiation Oncology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre;"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1754","reference":[{"issue":"9","key":"b1","series-title":"J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry","first-page":"797","article-title":"Stereotactic radiosurgery","volume":"46","author":"Leksell L","year":"1983","unstructured":"Leksell L. 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