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 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 ...

Results of the PORTEC-2 trial indicate that patients with endometrial cancer treated with vaginal brachytherapy reported better quality of life following treatment compared with external beam ...

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.. Compared ...

March 8, 2010 — Women with endometrial cancer of high-intermediate risk, who comprise about 30% of the patient population, can be safely treated with vaginal brachytherapy (VBT) after surgery ...

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 ...

CHICAGO --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 radiotherapy but wit ...

In the case of endometrial cancer, the unique advantage of brachytherapy over EBRT is that "it enables delivery of a high local dose to the uterine cavity," he explained.

Recurrent endometrial cancer is cancer that returns after treatment, often in the pelvis, ... Brachytherapy is a treatment for cancer that's in the same area as the original tumor.

Of the 460 women, 260 (56.5%) had been treated with external beam radiation alone, and 200 (43.5%) with brachytherapy, with or without external beam radiation.