Brachytherapy is a form of radiation therapy, by which a radioactive source is placed close to the tumor, either directly adjacent to it or inside the tumor itself. This procedure delivers a high dose ...

For patients receiving supplemental EBRT, the EBRT was given first; the brachytherapy procedure followed the course of EBRT by 2 4 weeks. The EBRT was delivered after CT-based treatment planning ...

What advantages are there to using remote afterloading devices, compared with manual brachytherapy procedures? Foremost, staff will be less exposed to radiation. When circumstances allow remote ...

In a randomized clinical trial, researchers from Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah (the U) have found that short-course, higher dose vaginal brachytherapy for endometrial cancer ...

But modern medicine treats cancer differently, with minimally invasive procedures that use small incisions on a patient, making brachytherapy techniques obsolete. Wazer and his colleague Dr ...

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 ...