Modern Bt Techniques - Florence 2016

INTRALUMINAL BRACHYTHERAPY IN ESOPHAGEAL CANCER

Early Disease:

Neoadjuvant chemoradiation + Surgery or mucosal resection

alternative treatment: EBRT + brachytherapy

Advanced Disease:

palliative (chemo-)radiation as EBRT

+/- BT or EBRT + BT

Advanced or recurrent disease with luminal obstruction: Brachytherapy alone

aim: rapid and lasting relief of symptoms from dysphagia