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Brachy-ing Unresectable Endometrial Cancers with Magnetic Resonance Guidance
- Source :
- Cureus
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Cureus, Inc., 2018.
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Abstract
- The standard treatment for endometrial cancer is upfront surgery. However, surgical resection is challenging in locally advanced cases extending to the vagina, bladder, bowel, rectum, or parametria. Historically, these cases were managed palliatively due to the inability to escalate radiation dose safely and accurately, and there is a paucity of literature supporting definitive radiation for these patients. Technological advances in brachytherapy, including magnetic resonance guidance (MR-guidance) and interstitial techniques, have improved target precision and dose escalation without additional toxicity to permit curative management. We report two cases of unresectable, locally advanced endometrial cancers treated with MR-guided radiation.
- Subjects :
- interstitial brachytherapy
medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.medical_treatment
brachytherapy
Brachytherapy
Locally advanced
Rectum
030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
image guided brachytherapy
Dose escalation
medicine
magnetic resonance imaging
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Standard treatment
Endometrial cancer
Radiation dose
General Engineering
Magnetic resonance imaging
medicine.disease
unresectable endometrial cancer
medicine.anatomical_structure
Oncology
adaptive radiotherapy
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
endometrial cancer
Radiation Oncology
Obstetrics/Gynecology
Radiology
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 21688184
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Cureus
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d708597dc9c20e7ddb312fb8fad2906e
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2274