Prostate brachytherapy
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prostate-brachytherapy-310-13287419
title:
Prostate brachytherapy
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Brachytherapy is a type of radiotherapy, or radiation treatment, offered to certain cancer patients. There are two types of brachytherapy – high dose-rate (HDR) and low dose-rate (LDR). LDR brachytherapy is the one most commonly used to treat prostate cancer. It may be referred to as 'seed implantation' or it may be called 'pinhole surgery'. In LDR brachytherapy, tiny radioactive particles the size of a grain of rice are implanted directly into, or very close to, the tumour. These particles are
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Radiation therapy technique for the treatment of cancer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostate_brachytherapy
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2023-11-29T06:35:47Z
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