Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy as an Alternative to Brachytherapy in Gynecologic Cancer

Table 1

Patient characteristics.

Patient #	Diagnosis	Stage	Histology	Recommended implant	Reason that implant could not be performed
1	Cervical	Recurrent	Scc	Interstitial	Size and location
2	Cervical	Recurrent	Carcinosarcoma	Interstitial	Bleeding
3	Endometrial	Recurrent	Adenocarcinoma	Interstitial	Difficulty with interstitial, short endocervix makes tandem difficult
4	Vaginal	T2	Scc	Interstitial	Proximity to bladder and bowel
5	Vaginal	T2	Scc	Interstitial	Difficulty w visualization of tumor
6	Cervical	IIIb	Scc	Tandem and ovoid	Comorbid conditions
7	Cervical	IIIb	Scc	Tandem and ovoid	Unable to place Smits Sleeve
8	Cervical	IIIb	Scc	Tandem and ovoid	Unable to place sleeve
9	Cervical	IIIb	Scc	Tandem and ovoid	Smits Sleeve became misplaced
10	Cervical	Recurrent	Scc	Tandem and ovoid	Unable to place sleeve
11	Endometrial	T2N1	Adenocarcinoma	Tandem and ovoid	Smits Sleeve perforation through uterus

Scc: squamous cell carcinoma.