MRI-Guided Vaginal Cylinder Brachytherapy Significantly Improves OARs Dosimetry

Image-guided brachytherapy in locally advanced cervical cancer, with MRI regarded as the gold standard, is increasingly recognized as the new paradigm. GEC-ESTRO has recognized the importance of MRI for cervical cancer, and has issued a series of recommendations. MRI has superior soft tissue depiction quality. OARs (bladder, rectum and sigmoid) and the relevant patho-anatomical structures (uterine cervix and corpus, vagina, parametrium) can be appropriately visualized on T2-weighted MR images without contrast media injection.

Source: Brachytherapy - June 23, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Jieming Liang, An Liu, Scott Glaser Source Type: research