Journal article
Vaginal cuff brachytherapy in the adjuvant setting for patients with high-risk early-stage cervical cancer
Brachytherapy, Vol.18(6), pp.747-752
11/01/2019
DOI: 10.1016/j.brachy.2019.08.006
PMID: 31607499
Abstract
PURPOSE: To evaluate local control and survival of high-risk patients with early-stage cervical cancer submitted or not to vaginal cuff brachytherapy in the postoperative setting.
METHODS AND MATERIALS: In this retrospective cohort of patients treated from 2010 to 2017, patients were eligible if they had confirmed histological diagnosis of cervical cancer treated with surgery and adjuvant radiotherapy with or without chemotherapy. Vaginal cuff brachytherapy (VCB) was indicated according to the radiation oncologist discretion.
RESULTS: Seventy-nine patients were selected, with a median age at diagnosis of 47.5 years (26-77). Brachytherapy was delivered to 59 patients (74.7%). There were no significant differences between the VCB and the no-VCB groups. A total of 13 (16.5%) patients presented one or more events, 5 (25%) and 8 (13.5%) events in the no-VCB and VCB group, respectively. Most recurrences were pelvic and/or vaginal: 7/20 (35%) in the no-VCB group and 9/59 (10.2%) in the VCB group. There were eight systemic relapses with eight deaths. With a median followup of 45 months, mean overall survival and disease-free survival were, respectively, 85.1 and 83.8 months. No variables were correlated with overall survival. The only factor positively correlated to disease-free survival was VCB, with a mean of 86.9 and 68.4 months for patients who did and did not receive brachytherapy, respectively (p = 0.043). Vaginal recurrence was lower in the brachytherapy group, but with no statistical significance (p = 0.065).
CONCLUSION: VCB was associated with a reduced recurrence rate in the postoperative setting of high-risk patients with early-stage cervical cancer. (C) 2019 American Brachytherapy Society. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Vaginal cuff brachytherapy in the adjuvant setting for patients with high-risk early-stage cervical cancer
- Creators
- Geovanne Pedro Mauro - Instituto do Câncer do Estado de São PauloRodolpho Truffa Kleine - Instituto do Câncer do Estado de São PauloSamantha Cabral Severino da Costa - ICESP, Dept Clin Oncol, Sao Paulo, SP, BrazilHeloisa A. Carvalho - Univ Sao Paulo, Hosp Sirio Libanes, Hosp Clin, Dept Radiol & Oncol,Inst Radiol,Med Sch, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Brachytherapy, Vol.18(6), pp.747-752
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.brachy.2019.08.006
- PMID
- 31607499
- NLM abbreviation
- Brachytherapy
- ISSN
- 1538-4721
- eISSN
- 1873-1449
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Number of pages
- 6
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/01/2019
- Academic Unit
- Radiation Oncology
- Record Identifier
- 9984914020702771
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