A new study published in the British Journal of Urology International found that salvage low-dose-rate brachytherapy (LDR-BT) ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

In Meraouna et al.'s study, the failure-free survival rate was 66% at 3 years of follow-up. Regarding treatment-related morbidities, 12.3% of patients experienced grade 3 genitourinary (GU) toxicity, ...

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