Brachytherapy

Questions discussed in this category

What is your approach to a patient with locally advanced cervical cancer who presents with a fistula (rectal or bladder)?

Do you recommend upfront diversion? Are there unique planning considerations such as the inability to use bladder filling? How do you boost? What are ...

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For men with intermediate or high-risk prostate cancer, can an SBRT boost be used in place of a brachytherapy boost after EBRT?

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Do you give vaginal cuff brachytherapy or whole pelvis (or both), for patients with Stage III endometrial adenocarcinoma?

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How do you sequence vaginal cuff brachytherapy with EBRT for post-op endometrial or cervical cases that require both modalities?

Sequentially or do you integrate the cuff brachy with the EBRT and if so what schedule, BIW, weekly, etc?

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How do you treat recurrent tracheal carcinoma?

Any role for endotracheal brachytherapy? If so, how long after laser treatment would it be safe to use endotracheal brachytherapy and at what dose?

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Do you take patients off anticoagulation for tandem and ovoid or tandem and ring procedures?

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What is your approach to a cervical SCC patient in which you're unable to properly place a T&O, due to obliterated cervical os, after completion of EBRT?

Do you add an IMRT boost with possibly vaginal brachytherapy?

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What is your protocol for conscious sedation during T&O insertion?

What are your specific protocols for monitoring and for dosing narcotics and sedatives?

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What is appropriate local salvage therapy after prostate brachytherapy failure?

If salvage EBRT - what dose?

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How do you define "low-volume" intermediate risk prostate cancer that is appropriate for brachytherapy alone?

Specifically, what criteria do you use to quantify "low-volume" prostate cancer? What other criteria do you consider when defining low volume in...

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Are there instances where you prefer a SBRT boost rather than a brachytherapy boost when treating definitive locally advanced cervical cancer?

If so, what dose/ volume is prescribed? How do you account for motion?

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What criteria do you use when choosing an applicator system for cervical brachytherapy patients?

For example, how do you decide between applicators such as tandem and ovoid versus tandem split ring insertion for cervical brachytherapy patients?&nb...

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What prostate size or baseline urinary symptoms are relative contraindications for prostate HDR?

It seems that some high volume centers have expanded their selection of patients for both HDR monotherapy and boosts. If you do have size or IP...

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Do the number of lymph nodes removed in a non-Stage IA/FIGO 1 endometrial cancer case, affect your decision for WPRT v. vaginal brachytherapy alone?

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What small bowel dose constraints do you use in gyn brachytherapy?

The most recent ABS guidelines don't discuss a dose constraint for the small bowel.

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What dose constraint do you use for the female urethra in gynecologic brachytherapy?

Do the urethral constraints used in prostate brachytherapy apply to women undergoing gyn brachy?

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