Women who have early stage endometrial cancer and are inoperable tend to live longer if they have been treated with brachytherapy with or without external beam radiation, according to new research.

Molecular profiling could reduce both overtreatment and undertreatment of patients with high-intermediate risk endometrial ...

Brachytherapy is a type of internal radiotherapy that involves putting a radioactive source close to, or in the tumour. Although it has been used historically to treat inoperable endometrial ...

Women with stage 1 endometrioid adenocarcinoma of the uterus showed improved survival with vaginal brachytherapy (VB), according to a large database analysis published in the journal Cancer.

Recurrent endometrial cancer is cancer that returns after treatment, often in the pelvis, lymph nodes, or distant organs, requiring further therapy.

CHICAGO, June 1 -- Vaginal brachytherapy is as effective in preventing a recurrence of endometrial cancer after surgery in women with high-intermediate risk disease as external-beam pelvic ...

“Brachytherapy is an important tool in our toolbox, but it is one of many options we provide within our multidisciplinary program.” For example, radiation oncology, neuro-oncology, and thoracic ...

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 ...

Researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute have found that fewer sessions of higher dose vaginal cuff brachytherapy work just as well as more frequent, lower-dose treatments for endometrial cancer ...

It is unlikely a person will become pregnant after an endometrial ablation, but it can happen. Pregnancy after ablation has an increased risk of complications.

Endometrial cancer is a disease in which cancerous cells form in the tissues of the endometrium, which is part of the uterus. Huntsman Cancer Institute’s Gynecologic Cancers Program provides ...