Thursday, June 24, 2010

Optimizing Brachytherapy Dose On The Same Day As The Implant Can Control Prostate Cancer

Ensuring the optimum radiation dose on the same day as the brachytherapy implant in prostate cancer treatment manages to control the illness in about 95% of the cases. This is the result of research undertaken at the University Hospital of Navarre and published in the latest issue of Brachytherapy, journal of the American Society of Brachytherapy.

As is known, brachytherapy is a radiotherapy treatment involving the insertion of radioactive sources within or near the tumour.

Read more at Medical News Today.

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