Adjuvant vaginal brachytherapy was compared with adjuvant pelvic radiation therapy in patients with high-intermediate-risk uterine cancers in the PORTEC-2 trial. The results suggest that vaginal ...

In a randomized clinical trial, researchers from Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah (the U) have found that short-course, higher dose vaginal brachytherapy for endometrial cancer ...

Individuals need to avoid sexual intercourse and tampons for at least 2 weeks after endometrial ablation, according to the United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS). However, the American ...

What Is Metastatic Endometrial Cancer? Metastatic endometrial cancer is when cancer that starts in the lining of the uterus (endometrium) spreads to other parts of the body. Your doctor may call ...

Brachytherapy is a form of radiation therapy, by which a radioactive source is placed close to the tumor, either directly adjacent to it or inside the tumor itself. This procedure delivers a high dose ...

Figure 3 shows a case example of SBRT for recurrent endometrial cancer ... the same therapeutic efficacy as low and high dose-rate brachytherapy that are more commonly and validated techniques ...