C. Constantinescu

TL;DR: Vaginal HDR brachytherapy using a multichannel vaginal applicator and inverse planning provides dosimetric advantages over single channel cylinder, by reducing the dose to organs at risk without compromising the target volume coverage, but at the expense of an increased vaginal mucosa dose.

TL;DR: A low incidence of uterine perforation and sub-serosal insertion of intra-uterine tandem in intracavitary HDR brachytherapy for cervical cancer is reported, however, the effects on treatment plan dosimetry can be considerably detrimental.

TL;DR: The presence of air pockets around vaginal cylinder applicators is frequently noticed in post-operative vaginal cuff brachytherapy, and the dose to the vaginal mucosa is reduced, as a result of displacement generated by air pockets.

TL;DR: The use of both IMRT and VMAT provides good target tissue coverage and sparing of the adjacent tissue for MB, and both techniques resulted in OAR dose delivery within published pediatric dose guidelines, except those mentioned above.

TL;DR: A systematic review of the literature concerning breast boost radiotherapy techniques, and evidence-based guidelines for each of them are provided in this article, where a search for literature was performed in the National Library of Medicine's (PubMed) database for English-language articles published from 1st January 1990 to 5th April 2011.