Cervical cancer treatment in Saskatchewan just got a new targeted form a radiation therapy. Patients can now receive new ...

This process often requires hospital admission. High dose rate (HDR) brachytherapy, which can be delivered with miniaturized sources of 60Cobalt or 192Iridium, which allows a dose rate greater than 12 ...

Iridium-192 has proven to be an often-used source for high dose rate applications. Why is this, and why is it not used for all brachytherapy? While iridium 192 (192 Ir) has many good qualities, ...

Saskatchewan cervical cancer patients now have access to a specialized radiation therapy treatment previously only available ...

For cervical cancer patients in Saskatchewan, the new Interstitial High-Dose-Rate (HDR) Gynecological Brachytherapy program ...

In terms of technology, the high-dose-rate brachytherapy segment accounted for the highest revenue-grossing segment in the global market last year. Meanwhile, the low-dose-rate brachytherapy ...

The machines include two state-of-theart linear accelerators, two high dose rate (HDR) brachytherapy machines, and one SPECT CT scan. Radiotherapy machines are used to treat a variety of cancers ...