De Bari B Lestrade L Franzetti-Pellanda A Jumeau R Biggiogero M Kountouri M Matzinger O Miralbell R Bourhis J Ozsahin M Zilli T 2018 PURPOSE To report outcomes of a population of anal cancer patients treated with modern intensity-modulated radiotherapy and daily image-guided radiotherapy techniques. METHODS We analyzed data of 155 patients consecutively treated with intensity-modulated radiotherapy +/- chemotherapy in three radiotherapy departments. One hundred twenty-two patients presented a stage II-IIIA disease. Chemotherapy was administered in 138 patients, mainly using mitomycin C and 5-fluorouracil (n = 81). All patients received 36 Gy (1.8 Gy/fraction) on the pelvic and inguinal nodes, on the rectum, on the mesorectum and on the anal canal, and a sequential boost up to a total dose of 59.4 Gy (1.8 Gy/fraction) on the anal canal and on the nodal gross tumor volumes. RESULTS Median follow-up was 38 months (interquartile range 12-51). Toxicity data were available for 143 patients: 22% of them presented a G3+ acute toxicity, mainly as moist desquamation (n = 25 patients) or diarrhea (n = 10). Three patients presented a late grade 3 gastrointestinal toxicity (anal incontinence). No grade 4 acute or late toxicity was recorded. Patients treated with fixed-gantry IMRT delivered with a sliding window technique presented a significantly higher risk of acute grade 3 (or more) toxicity compared to those treated with VMAT or helical tomotherapy (38.5 vs 15.3%, p = 0.049). Actuarial 4-year local control rate was 82% (95% CI 76-91%). CONCLUSIONS Modern intensity-modulated radiotherapy with daily image-guided radiotherapy is effective and safe in treating anal cancer patients and should be considered the standard of care in this clinical setting. application/pdf https://sonar.ch/global/documents/232661 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1007/s00432-018-2608-6 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/pmid/29441419 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology. - 2018 Anal cancer Helical tomotherapy IMRT Local control Toxicity VMAT Aged Anus Neoplasms Chemoradiotherapy Female Humans Male Middle Aged Radiotherapy, Intensity-Modulated Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic Modern intensity-modulated radiotherapy with image guidance allows low toxicity rates and good local control in chemoradiotherapy for anal cancer patients. http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501