Survival benefit of adjuvant brachytherapy after hysterectomy with positive surgical margins in cervical cancer

We analyzed a cohort of patients from the National Cancer Database who underwent hysterectomy for cervical cancer with positive surgical margins followed by adjuvant radiation therapy. We found that the addition of brachytherapy to external beam radiation therapy was associated with improved overall survival compared to external beam radiation therapy alone. However, only 45% of patients in this cohort received brachytherapy.

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