Background: Treatment
of Cervical cancer includes a combination of external beam radiotherapy (EBRT) with intracavitary brachytherapy(ICBT).
ICBT helps to boost radiation dose to primary disease. Organs like rectum,bladder,sigmoid
and small bowel lieclose to the cervix region and these organs receive dose from EBRT as
well as ICBT and we want to know the dose to these organ
at risk (OAR).Materials & Methods: Dosimetric
details of 174 ICBT applications done in 58 patients were retrospectively
analysed. All patients received EBRT dose of 50.4 Gy in 28 fractions. All
patients had ICBT, three sessions with 7 Gy prescribed to point A.
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