Yasir A. Bahadur

TL;DR: Post-RT prostate biopsies are not a gold standard of treatment efficacy, but are an independent predictor of outcome, and positive immunohistochemical staining for markers of cellular proliferation is associated with subsequent local failure.

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.