Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy for Localized Ureter Transitional Cell Carcinoma: Three Case Reports

Table 1

Summary of case presentations.

	Case  1	Case  2	Case  3
Age	87	87	85
Sex	F	M	F
Tumor location in ureter	Orifice	Distal one-third	Distal end
TNM staging	T2N0M0	T2N0M0	T2N0M0
Cause for avoidance of surgery	CKD; Rheumatism	Patient refusal	Patient refusal
Dose/fractionations	60 Gy/10 fr	50 Gy/10 fr	60 Gy/10 fr
Tumor size in 3 months	Decreased	Decreased	Decreased
Acute adverse events	None	None	None
LPFS (month)	12	12	24
Recurrence of disease	None	None	Bladder
OS (month)	33	13	38
Cause of death	Rheumatism	Bacterial pneumonia	Cancer

Abbreviations: CKD, Chronic kidney disease; LPFS, Local progression-free survival; OS, Overall survival.