Who's known for rectal brachy?
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Thanks. Who’s doing a lot of it in Europe or Canada?
Why dont you reach out to the OPERA study authors? They would probably know.
Looks like this study was run by something called the ICONE group.
Looks like this study was run by something called the ICONE group.
McGill in Montreal
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Clinical applications of high dose rate endorectal brachytherapy for patients with rectal cancer - PubMed
With the establishment of total mesorectal excision for the treatment of rectal cancer, local recurrence rates have significantly decreased. The addition of preoperative external beam irradiation further reduces this risk to less than 6%. As the local treatment becomes successful and more widely...
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McGill group used HDR with a cylinder applicator. Dose distribution very similar to vaginal cuff brachy. Versus the OPERA which i think is contact x-ray. I’ve always been curious about the contact x-ray dosimetry especially for more proximal tumors. Does anyone here have experience or references?McGill in Montreal
Clinical applications of high dose rate endorectal brachytherapy for patients with rectal cancer - PubMed
With the establishment of total mesorectal excision for the treatment of rectal cancer, local recurrence rates have significantly decreased. The addition of preoperative external beam irradiation further reduces this risk to less than 6%. As the local treatment becomes successful and more widely...
McGill, as mentioned above. They're using an HDR approach rather than the contact approach more commonly used in Europe. Less follow-up, but likely more interesting in some ways.
More applicable to the rest of us with standard HDR afterloaders and vaginal cylinder applicators
is it just an unresectable pelvic mass, previously irradiated? a GYN person can do it well
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Did you find out any additional HDR Rectal institutions in the US other than what was cited in this thread?
Did you find out any additional HDR Rectal institutions in the US other than what was cited in this thread?
Reach out to your local tertiary referral center. Try to get in touch w/ the brachy doc who is willing to place the Ir-192 next to whatever, whenever. Happy to help identify a center as I'm curious about this myself, if you want to PM me general location you're located...
I heard (but haven’t confirmed) that Methodist in Houston was doing a fair bit
