Sentences with phrase «brachytherapy implants»

«The ideal next step,» Prof Morris will say, «would be to undertake randomised comparisons of LDR - PB boost against its principal alternatives — temporary high - dose - rate brachytherapy implants (HDR - PB) 3, stereotactic body radiation therapy using extreme hypofractionation4, and combined surgery and post-operative radiation therapy.

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If the disease requires treatment and isn't widespread, he will use focal brachytherapy — implanted radioactive seeds — to irradiate only the tumor, sparing the surrounding tissue.

Results from a randomised controlled trial to compare the use of permanent radioactive implants (brachytherapy) with dose - escalated external beam radiotherapy in patients with prostate cancer show that the men who received brachytherapy were twice as likely to be cancer - free five years later.

Of particular interest was urethral sparing during permanent seed implants for prostate brachytherapy and measurement of breathing pattern changes for patients undergoing external beam treatment for lung cancer.

Usual treatment of patients with stage lA2 and lB1 lesions consists of either radical hysterectomy with bilateral pelvic lymph node dissection or radiation therapy (RT), which combines two kinds of therapy — whole pelvic teletherapy and local brachytherapy (implants).

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