Brachytherapy is a type of radiation therapy. It involves placing radioactive material inside or near a tumor to destroy cancer cells. The procedure has some benefits over other radiation techniques ...
The evidence on which this guidance was based is derived from treatment of breast cancer in women. Treatment depends on pathology, stage and grade. Surgery is usually the first option and may involve ...
Radiation dose delivered to the prostate and nearby organs in every brachytherapy procedure should be carefully analyzed using post-implant CT or MRI and uniformly documented in every patient, ...
» 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 ...
Researchers at the Mount Sinai Health System have identified specific ways in which addressing religion and spirituality during radiation therapy can play an important role in the care of patients ...
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 ...
Provider-Level Variation in Treatment Planning of Radiation Oncology Procedures in the United States
Patterns and Predictors of Oral Anticancer Agent Use in Diverse Patients With Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma The Physician and Other Supplier Public Use File was linked to the Physician Compare ...
After obtaining formal institutional review board approval, the charts of 441 patients from 1996 to 2005 receiving low-dose-rate brachytherapy for prostate cancer at our institution were reviewed. Of ...
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