Background: Androgen ablation is often used in addition to low-dose-rate brachytherapy in the treatment of prostate cancer, particularly for disease with adverse features. We report a single ...

Brachytherapy uses sealed radioactive sources that are placed directly into tumors (interstitial) or in body cavities (intracavitary). One example is the implant of some 125Iodine inside the prostate ...

Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer ... radioactive seed near the prostate in another approach, known as ...

So we get seeds, in our case Iodine-125, we inject them into the prostate and this cures the patient of the cancer," says Prof Peter Mungai Ngugi a Urologist at Nairobi Hospital. Brachytherapy is ...

Permanent brachytherapy is used, for example, to treat prostate cancer. » Does temporary brachytherapy treatment require hospitalization? In most temporary brachytherapy treatments, patients stay in ...

Prostate cancer ranks as the second highest type of cancer among men, next to skin cancer. Although one out of every eight men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer, more than half of those ...

There are now more ways than ever before to help cancer patients in the Fraser Valley thanks to the introduction of two new ...

He was unaware that brachytherapy errors at the Philadelphia ... Dr. Kao used radioactive seeds to attack the patient's prostate cancer, but later Rev. Flippin learned that he received a ...

Patients with intermediate-risk prostate cancer had a 15-year prostate cancer–specific ... and was numerically lower than those undergoing brachytherapy (110 patients).

Prostate cancer is frequently seen as an area of ... being considered for radical treatment (surgical prostatectomy or brachytherapy). MRI is used to exclude direct extracapsular tumor extension ...

Urologic oncology specialists in the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center specialize in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer. The Lester ...