Adaptive brachytherapy for cervical cancer in combined 1.5 T MR/HDR suite: Impact of repeated imaging.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

At our department we have a dedicated 1.5 Tesla MRI/HDR brachytherapy suite, which provides the possibility of repeated MRI scanning before, during and after applicator insertion and before and/or after irradiation for patients with advanced cervical cancer. In this study we analysed the effect of this adaptive workflow. We investigated the number of interventions, their impact on organ doses (OAR) and the respective dose differences between total prescribed and total delivered doses.

Materials and methods

Seventy patients with locally advanced cervical cancer FIGO2009 stages IB-IVA, treated from June 2016 till August 2020, were retrospectively analysed. The standard brachytherapy schedule consisted of two applicator insertions and delivery of three or four HDR

SUBMITTER: Van Vliet-van den Ende KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11367091 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature