Prostate brachytherapy (BT) is a curative option for men with localized prostate cancer. Most early BT series included predominantly low-risk patients with some clinicians favoring the addition of ...

Vaginal cuff brachytherapy is a treatment that can help prevent endometrial cancer from spreading to the upper part of your vagina. It involves inserting a radioactive cylinder into your vagina to ...

Brachytherapy is ideally suited for treatment of early prostate cancer and was first used as a treatment modality 60 years ago. Brachytherapy is used to treat cancers of the head and neck, breast ...

Brachytherapy is an internal radiation therapy for treating some types of cancer. It involves placing radioactive material, usually in the form of seeds, pellets, ribbons, or wires, inside or next ...

Both brachytherapy and prostatectomy patients showed a decreased SIR for lung cancer. After brachytherapy, there was an increased risk of bladder SPC in the first 4 years after treatment (SIR, 2.14; ...

Brachytherapy is also contraindicated in patients with a damaged prostate gland and recurrent hematuria. Before BT treatment is initiated, it is important to stop anticoagulation treatment for at ...

Brachytherapy is a form of localized radiation therapy involving the direct placement of radioactive material close to or inside a tumor. Brachytherapy varies by dose, mode of delivery and the ...

The brachytherapy group had a median age of 66 as compared with 63 for the surgery group. Following radical prostatectomy, 1,706 patients had adjuvant or salvage EBRT to the prostate bed with or ...

Brachytherapy Awareness Day highlights the value of this precise form of internal radiotherapy in treating cancer. Organised by several oncology organisations, the initiative showcases evidence that ...

This article on permanent iodine-125 seed prostate brachytherapy reviews the techniques, results, and patient selection issues for early prostate cancer. The long-term 10 y results of ...

Prostate brachytherapy normally involves application of between 40 and 150 sources. According to the code descriptor for 55875, it includes a cystoscopy performed at the same session as brachytherapy.

"Brachytherapy use in the United States is declining," Sahaja Acharya, MD, a resident physician in the Radiation Oncology Department of Washington University, in St. Louis, Missouri, told And yet ...