"It’s crucial that patients and their families know about this new option," said Dr. William Russell, an oncology radiologist ...

Just over 10 years ago, Canadian researchers set out to assess the risk of secondary malignancy among men with prostate cancer who were treated with a type of radiation called brachytherapy.

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 ...

The hope is the therapy can effectively target cancerous cells at relatively small doses while minimizing side effects.

Your doctor may suggest a type of internal radiation therapy called "brachytherapy ... can treat advanced prostate cancer or gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (GEP-NETs).

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 ...

Brachytherapy Device Market Limited expertise in certain regions restricts the widespread adoption of brachytherapy US, NY, UNITED STAT ...

Investigators pooled data from 261,906 patients with prostate cancer from 4 datasets from ... radiation therapy (IMRT), proton beam therapy, brachytherapy, and combination radiation therapy.