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Does the path length of vaginal cuff cylinder brachytherapy treatment as adjuvant therapy for endometrial cancer vary based on histology (serous, etc)?

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Radiation Oncology · Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania

There was some thought that treatment of high risk histologies, positive LVI, or high Grade required a longer vaginal length be treated. Including 2/3 or full length. That is largely unsupported by high-quality data and would increase distal vagina toxicity in this population.

Our clinic treats uppe...

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Radiation Oncology · Varian Medical Systems/Allegheny health network

I don’t change the length of vaginal treatment for adjuvant brachytherapy alone based on histology.

The only thing I do differently is in high risk disease who need EBRT, I treat the larger length of vagina with EBRT followed by brachy boost to upper 3 cm only.

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Radiation Oncology · Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

Anecdotally, my institution has seen a few mid vaginal recurrences in high-risk histology (serous/carcinosarcoma/clear cell) patients treated to a 'standard' distance of 3 cm of proximal vagina, which became very challenging salvage situations.

Thus, I do change my treatment length based on histolog...

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Radiation Oncology · Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

I also agree with what has been discussed above by @Dr. First Last and @Dr. First Last. We don't change the path length based on histology as there is limited data to support this.

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