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 ...

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 ...

A mobile prostate cancer screening program proved feasible for men in underserved neighborhoods and led to a high rate of ...

External beam radiation therapy with or without short-term androgen deprivation showed 15-year survival benefits for ...

A nurse-led mobile healthcare clinic identified a high proportion of clinically significant prostate cancers among men from ...

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 ...

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 ...

In Meraouna et al.'s study, the failure-free survival rate was 66% at 3 years of follow-up. Regarding treatment-related morbidities, 12.3% of patients experienced grade 3 genitourinary (GU) toxicity, ...

Learn more about Brachytherapy for Breast Cancer ... It can also treat cancer in the lung, liver, and prostate. Huntsman Cancer Institute offers The Edge® Radiosurgery System for Cancer Treatment. The ...