Intensive Care Unit Outcomes Among Patients With Cancer After Palliative Radiation Therapy.

Purpose: To inform goals of care discussions at the time of palliative radiation therapy (RT) consultation, we sought to characterize intensive care unit (ICU) outcomes for patients treated with palliative RT compared to all other patients with metastatic cancer admitted to the ICU.

Methods And Materials: We conducted a retrospective cohort study of patients with metastatic cancer admitted to an ICU in a tertiary medical center from January 2010 to September 2015. We compared in-hospital mortality between patients who received palliative RT in the 12 months before admission and all other patients with metastatic cancer.

The effect of pelvic radiotherapy on vaginal brachytherapy cylinder diameter: Implications for optimal treatment order.

Purpose: To determine the factors that correlate with cylinder size in vaginal brachytherapy (VB) after hysterectomy for endometrial carcinoma.

Methods And Materials: Patients treated for endometrial cancer from January 1, 2003 to December 31, 2013 were reviewed from a single institution. Patients included underwent total abdominal hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy followed by high-dose-rate VB with or without external beam pelvic radiotherapy (EBRT).

Intracranial relapse rates and patterns, and survival trends following post-resection cavity radiosurgery for patients with single intracranial metastases.

The objective of this study is to evaluate the patterns of relapse and survival trends in patients with single brain metastases treated with post-operative adjuvant Gamma knife stereotactic radiosurgery (GKS) without whole brain radiotherapy (WBRT). Retrospective analysis of all consecutive patients who underwent GKS to the tumor cavity following resection of solitary brain metastasis was performed at a single institution. Between March 2001 and June 2010, 56 patients underwent GKS to the resection cavity following resection of intracranial metastases; no patient received pre- or post-operative WBRT as an adjuvant (salvage WBRT was permissible).