Feasibility Study And Dosimetric Evaluation Of Real Time Ct-Guided Intracavitary Plus Interstitial Cervical Implantation In An Outpatient Setting For Locally Advanced Cervical Cancer Patients

Objective: The EMBRACE protocol requires blind intraoperative interstitial needle placement under general anaesthesia, an MRI planning scan, and overnight hospital stays. Benefits of an outpatient-based procedure would eliminate such access problems and improve the efficiency of the workflow. Our study objective was to evaluate workflow and dosimetric feasibility of real-time outpatient CT-guided intracavitary plus interstitial cervical implantation using moderate sedation in such patients.