Radiation Therapy for Cervical Cancer: Executive Summary of an ASTRO Clinical Practice Guideline.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

This guideline reviews the evidence and provides recommendations for the indications and appropriate techniques of radiation therapy (RT) in the treatment of nonmetastatic cervical cancer.

Methods

The American Society for Radiation Oncology convened a task force to address 5 key questions focused on the use of RT in definitive and postoperative management of cervical cancer. These questions included the indications for postoperative and definitive RT, the use of chemotherapy in sequence or concurrent with RT, the use of intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), and the indications and techniques of brachytherapy. Recommendations were based on a systematic literature review and created using a predefined consensus-building methodology and system for grading eviden

SUBMITTER: Chino J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8802172 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul - Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature