Abstract:rate (HDR) brachytherapy followed by 5 weeks of external beam radiation therapy. We have treated over 400 patients to-date and this is a retrospect review of the techniques and outcome. We also did a preliminary comparison of our two different HDR regimens used over the years. Materials and Methods: Before April of 2011, we treated all our patients with a single brachytherapy procedure and delivered a nominal dose of 18 Gy given in 3 fractions over 24 hours. (Group 1) All patients needed to be hospitalized ove… Show more
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