Physics Bucharest 2017

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