Comparison of treatment outcomes of pelvis external radiotherapy with and without vaginal brachytherapy for cervical cancer patients with positive or close vaginal resected margins

We evaluated whether there is a difference in the local recurrence and survival after pelvic external radiotherapy (ERT) with and without boost vaginal brachytherapy (VB) in cervical cancer patients with positive or close vaginal resected margins (RM). We retrospectively reviewed FIGO stage IA-IIB cervical cancer patients treated with postoperative ERT between 1997 and 2018. The sixty patients showing close (safety margin