The potential role of brachytherapy in the irradiation of patients with lung cancer: a systematic review.

To review the use of brachytherapy as an adjuvant therapy to reduce recurrences after sublobar resections and as a palliation to patients with inoperable disease. Α review of all published studies was performed to identify the recurrence rate after brachytherapy adjuvant to sublobar resection and assess the palliation of symptoms and the complications of brachytherapy as a palliative treatment. Most of the studies that we found about brachytherapy as an adjuvant therapy to sublobar resection due to patient's poor cardiopulmonary reserve showed that brachytherapy offered low recurrence rate with low toxicity.

Intraoperative electron beam radiotherapy followed by moderate doses of external beam radiotherapy in the treatment of resected soft tissue sarcomas of the extremities.

Purpose: Soft tissue sarcomas (STS) have a high incidence of local recurrence. In an effort to improve the local control rate and the survival in patients with STS, treatment strategies employing intraoperative electron beam radiotherapy (IOERT) in combination with external beam radiotherapy (EBRT) and extensive surgical resection have been explored. This study assesses the rate of overall survival (OS), local control and toxicity of this multimodal approach for primary and recurrent STS of the extremities.