Your doctor might recommend radiation therapy in several situations. It can be the first treatment for cancer that hasn’t spread outside your prostate gland and is “low grade.” The grade is a number that tells you how abnormal your cancer cells look under a microscope. The lower the grad...
Radiation’s Role in the Treatment of Prostate Cancer There are two types of prostate cancer radiation treatments: external and internal which is also called interstitial. Brachytherapy is interstitial, meaning treatment is administered from “within the tissue.” External radiation therapy involves the ...
Even if your cancer is so early you choose to “just watch and wait, you have the psychological side effects of waiting to see what happens with your cancer,” he says. More aggressive treatments, like surgery, beam radiation, brachytherapy or radioactive “seeds,” or hormone therapy, could...
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side effects often associated with treatment.Because the procedure - focal cryoablation - targets only the cancer, it spares healthy tissue in and around the gland, including the nerves involved in the bladder and sexual functioning.About 21,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer each year in...
In this procedure, high dose radiation seeds are placed inside the body of the patient, near the site of cancer. The seeds release radioactive radiation on the inside, thus killing off cancer cells. The seeds are either placed permanently and dissolve by themselves, or they are removed and ...
radiation can avoid side effects such as impotence or incontinence, yet only about 10 percent of men diagnosed with prostate cancer each year choose some sort of observation. These decisions are especially important for African American men, who have the highest rates of prostate cancer incidence ...
Brachytherapy for prostate cancer is also known as Prostate Seed Implantation (PSI). Brachytherapy is an innovative cancer treatment that places radiation sources or seeds directly inside the prostate allowing for a highly targeted treatment dose to be delivered while limiting dose to surrounding critical...
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5.3. Radiation Therapy Radiation therapy includes brachytherapy or external radiation treatment (XRT). Brachytherapy involves the insertion of radioactive seeds into the tumor tissue and is recommended for treatment of early T1 or T2-staged prostate-confined cancers. XRT is recommended for later staged...