Comparison of Measurements of the Uterus and Cervix Obtained by Magnetic Resonance and Transabdominal Ultrasound Imaging to Identify the Brachytherapy Target in Patients With Cervix Cancer

Two-year results of transabdominal ultrasound-guided brachytherapy for cervical cancer

“…In conclusion of this study, the mean detected differences were less than 3 mm in the cervix and less than 1.5 mm at all measurement points on the posterior surface (15).…”

“…The use of US in BT planning for cervical cancer is in clinical practice and documented in a few publications. The largest study by Van Dyk et al (15,16) reports very promising first results and treatment-related toxicities.…”

Evaluation of uterine ultrasound imaging in cervical radiotherapy; a comparison of autoscan and conventional probe

“…A clinical trial for a cervical brachytherapy study comprising 192 patients, based on transabdominal ultrasound scan, was recently published. 18 The study compared ultrasound imaging with MRI modality and demonstrated that the ultrasound scan can replace MRI as an alternative image-guided modality. Another brachytherapy study, 19 also applying ultrasound transabdominal scan vs MRI and including 20 patients, verified a strong correlation between the modalities in uterine, cervical and central disease delineations.…”

Brachytherapy in cancer cervix: Time to move ahead from point A?

“…The best way forward will be to perform a 3D cross sectional imaging prior to brachytherapy to correctly estimate the residual disease and thereafter proceed either with CT based or preferably MRI based planning [34,35,63,64] . An alternate in form of an ultrasound based planning as evident from some of the recent studies could also be explored [61,62,66] . It would still need some more time till we can integrate PET-CT/MRI into IGABT in cervical cancers.…”