 Patients undergo external beam radiotherapy to the whole pelvis once daily 5 days a week in weeks 1-5 and receive 1 or 2 applications of low-dose rate intracavitary brachytherapy in weeks 7-8 OR 5 applications of high-dose rate HDR intracavitary brachytherapy once weekly in weeks 4-8. Patients also receive oral capecitabine twice daily 7 days a week in weeks 1-5 and 7-8. Courses repeat every 12 weeks in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. 