If a patient with locally advanced cervical cancer cannot receive brachytherapy following 45Gy to the whole pelvis, how do you optimally deliver your boost?
Does your strategy change if bladder invasion is present?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice
One should be very cautious, as in our experience the situation where you can't do brachytherapy is very rare. There is a trend in the country to use a non-brachytherapy boost as it is more accessible but this approach can lead to worse outcomes. See Dr Viswanathan's paper recently published in the ...
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Radiation Oncologist at Yale School of Medicine What would you recommend if the patient refuses br...
Radiation Oncologist at Varian Medical Systems/Allegheny health network We have been able to do the procedure under consci...
What would you recommend if the patient refuses br...
We have been able to do the procedure under consci...