Brachytherapy is a form of radiation therapy where a sealed radiation source is placed inside or next to the area requiring treatment. The word "brachytherapy"...
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Radiation therapy (redirect from Contact X-ray brachytherapy (Papillon))
handbook of brachytherapy. Belgium: ACCO. Stewart AJ, et al. (2007). "Radiobiological concepts for brachytherapy". In Devlin P (ed.). Brachytherapy. Applications...
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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...
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medical company and the sole producer of Cesium brachytherapy sources, which are expanding brachytherapy treatments for difficult to treat cancers. Isoray...
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Uveal melanoma (section Plaque brachytherapy)
developed countries. The most common radiation treatment is plaque brachytherapy, in which a small disc-shaped shield (plaque) encasing radioactive seeds...
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Elekta (section Brachytherapy devices)
acquisition of Nucletron in 2011, Elekta became the global market leader in brachytherapy devices. These include: Flexitron afterloader, which delivers the planned...
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ISSN 1052-6773. PMC 3540879. PMID 23271765. "What is Brachytherapy?". American Brachytherapy Society. Retrieved 8 August 2020. "Surgery for Prostate...
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"American Brachytherapy Task Group Report: Adjuvant vaginal brachytherapy for early-stage endometrial cancer: A comprehensive review". Brachytherapy. 16 (1):...
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different mode of therapy, internal radiotherapy or brachytherapy. The iridium wires for brachytherapy are a palladium-coated iridium/palladium alloy wire...
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thermotherapy Transurethral needle ablation of the prostate Brachytherapy Prostate brachytherapy Prostate massage Seminal vesicles Spermatocelectomy Vas deferens...
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BTCs or BTCS may refer to: BTCs Bitcoins Brachytherapy catheters (for brachytherapy in bladder cancer) BTCS Before These Crowded Streets, an album by the...
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thermotherapy Transurethral needle ablation of the prostate Brachytherapy Prostate brachytherapy Prostate massage Seminal vesicles Spermatocelectomy Vas deferens...
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high–dose rate prostate brachytherapy dose distributions with iridium-192, ytterbium-169, and thulium-170 sources". Brachytherapy. 10 (6): 461–465. doi:10...
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inserting a stent, attempting to shrink the tumor with localized radiation (brachytherapy), or physically removing the blocking tissue by bronchoscopy, sometimes...
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workflow environment for image-guided brachytherapy: A practical approach for centers without in-room MRI". Brachytherapy. 14 (6): 905–9. doi:10.1016/j.brachy...
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therapy can be delivered either as external beam radiotherapy or as brachytherapy (mostly internal radiotherapy). Although radiotherapy is generally used...
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dosimetrists plan the appropriate external beam radiotherapy or internal brachytherapy treatment technique for a patient with cancer. In the early days of...
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radon daughter 210Pb entered the jewelry industry. This was from gold brachytherapy seeds that had held 222Rn, which were melted down after the radon had...
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treatments include high-dose-rate prostate brachytherapy, biliary duct brachytherapy, and intracavitary cervix brachytherapy. Iridium-192 is normally produced...
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"American Brachytherapy Task Group Report: Adjuvant vaginal brachytherapy for early-stage endometrial cancer: A comprehensive review". Brachytherapy. 16 (1):...
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the prostate with relatively little radiation to other organs, or by brachytherapy, where a radioactive source is surgically inserted into the prostate...
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he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, for which he was treated with brachytherapy. Jones stated that he "virtually taught" Zak Starkey, son of Ringo Starr...
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about half of cases. The radiation can be either from internal sources (brachytherapy) or external sources. The radiation is most commonly low energy X-rays...
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F. (2010). "Howard Kelly establishes gynecologic brachytherapy in the United States". Brachytherapy. 9 (2): 178–184. doi:10.1016/j.brachy.2009.10.001...
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biological assays, nuclear medicine imaging and in radiation therapy as brachytherapy to treat a number of conditions, including prostate cancer, uveal melanomas...
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therapy of cancer by radioisotopes emitting EMR: by nuclear medicine by brachytherapy quackery type: electromagnetic therapy (alternative medicine) by mechanical:...
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concurrent carboplatin plus paclitaxel, EBRT and high-dose-rate interstitial brachytherapy (HDR-ISBT). When the chance of surgical removal of all cancerous tissue...
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sexual function after prostate brachytherapy". Int. J. Cancer. 96 (5): 313–9. doi:10.1002/ijc.1028. PMID 11582584. Brachytherapy treatment options v t e...
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Radiation therapy is given as external beam radiotherapy to the pelvis and brachytherapy (internal radiation). Women treated with surgery who have high-risk...
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Mini, used with its portable radiation device, the Axxent Electronic Brachytherapy System, was found to have left test subjects "riddled ... with hundreds...
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