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Features of modern brachytherapy
• Excellent dose conformality to tumour with
avoidance of OAR allows dose escalation beyond
that achieved with EBRT alone
• Image Guided Brachytherapy (IGBT) using MR is
gold standard in cervical cancer
• Increasing evidence from clinical trials that IGBT
in addition to EBRT improves patient outcomes in
locally advanced cervix and prostate cancer
• IGBT now being used for cancers of vagina and
vulva