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 ...

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 ...

WebMD describes how radioactive seed implants, a form of radiation therapy called brachytherapy, is used to treat prostate cancer. Learn about the procedure, side effects, and risks.

Brachytherapy may be given on a permanent or temporary basis. In permanent brachytherapy, seeds containing the radioactive material are implanted either inside or nearby the tumor.

When you might have permanent seed brachytherapy You might have permanent seed brachytherapy for prostate cancer that hasn’t spread outside the prostate gland. This is localised prostate cancer.

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 can also be suited for patients with low, intermediate, or high-risk prostate cancer, a decision that will be reached during consultations with Penn Medicine's radiation oncologists.

"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 ...

Brachytherapy is the gold-standard treatment for locally advanced cervical cancer, but it costs so much more than external-beam radiation therapy (EBRT) that many hospitals are dissuaded from ...

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.

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 ...