Radioactive seed implants are a form ofradiation therapyforprostate cancer. Brachytherapy, or internal radiation therapy, are also terms used to describe this procedure. There are two types ofprostatebrachytherapy: permanent and temporary. Compared toexternal radiation, which requires five to eight weeks...
Prostate Cancer: Surgery or Radiation? More While a growing number of men diagnosed with early-stage, slow-growing prostate cancer opt for no immediate treatment beyond active surveillance, many men diagnosed with the cancer – especially those under age 60 who are in good health with a long li...
Minimally invasive radiation therapy implants low or high dose radiation (LDR or HDR) seeds in the prostate. Prostate Seed Implant Brachytherapy seeds are more effective for younger patients in good health with localized prostate cancer. Prostate Seed Implant ...
This study was conducted by the physicians at the Seattle Prostate Institute. Doctors wanted to look at the combination of seed implants and external beam radiation therapy, two different types of radiation therapy, to prolong the long-term disease cure rates for prostate cancer. Over the course ...
Prostate brachytherapy is an important tool in the management of prostate cancer. As monotherapy or in combination with external beam radiation, its effectiveness, convenience and low cost make brachytherapy an attractive option for initial definitive treatment. Implant quality is crucial to the ...
Based on the linear-quadratic model, we perform calculations to compare the possible radiobiologic results achieved with permanent implants using Au-198, P... CC Ling - 《International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics》 被引量: 405发表: 1992年 A permanent breast seed implant as parti...
radioactive seed implants (brachytherapy), hormonal therapy, chemotherapy, and surgery. Surgery is a common front-line curative approach to non-metastatic cancer in many solid organs, including the prostate. Prostate cancer surgery, or radical prostatectomy, involves the total removal of the prostate ...
seed implantsprostate cancertreatment-plan optimizationseed dosimetryAuthor information: (1)University of Kansas Cancer Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, USA.Marco ZaiderDepartment of Medical Physics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New YorkDavid A. Silvern...
Aggressive treatmentsfor prostate cancer, including surgery,external radiationand radioactive seed implants, can result in major side effects, including erectile dysfunction,urinary incontinenceand bowel problems. Also, thesurvival advantageafforded by these treatments does not develop until approximately eight...
To evaluate predictive factors for PSA bounce after125I permanent seed prostate brachytherapy and identify criteria that distinguish between benign bounces... R Meares - 《Radiation Oncology》 被引量: 35发表: 2012年 Iodine-125 brachytherapy for localized prostate cancer and urinary morbidity: a prospec...