The American Society of Clinical Oncology and Cancer Care Ontario have issued updated guidelines on brachytherapy for prostate cancer patients.

Prostate brachytherapy (BT) is a form of radiation therapy used to treat prostate cancer. The technique involves placing encapsulated radioisotopes inside or nearby the tumor.

A highly effective and “minimally invasive” prostate cancer treatment is “disappearing” from private hospitals in New Zealand ...

Among men with low-risk prostate cancer, the likelihood of biochemical failure is lower among patients who undergo low-dose-rate brachytherapy vs radical prostatectomy, data suggest.

Purpose To assess the risk of second primary cancer (SPC) after [125I]iodine prostate cancer brachytherapy compared with prostatectomy and the general population. Patients and Methods In a cohort ...

Prostate Brachytherapy Requires Extensive Documentation, Training and Significant Investment Becker’s ASC Review sat down with Randy Whaley, director of business development for United Medical Systems ...

Brachytherapy for high-risk prostate cancers patients has historically been considered a less effective modality, but a new study from radiation oncologists at the Kimmel Cancer Center at ...

Use of this treatment for localized prostate cancer has been decreasing since 2002, perhaps due to increasing use of radical prostatectomy.

Brachytherapy Also known as seed implantation or interstitial radiation therapy, brachytherapy uses small radioactive pellets placed directly into the prostate.

A world renowned expert in the field of prostate cancer treatment, Dr. Haakon Ragde, presented results of a 12-year study that demonstrates brachytherapy, or implanting of radioactive seeds into ...

During prostate brachytherapy, a radiation oncologist places radioactive seeds, similar to the size of a grain of rice, into the prostate to kill the cancer.