Sentences with phrase «prostate brachytherapy»

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.

Presenting these results at the 3rd ESTRO Forum in Barcelona, Spain, today (Monday) Professor James Morris, from the Department of Radiation Oncology, Vancouver Cancer Centre, British Columbia Cancer Agency (BCCA), Vancouver, Canada, will say that the ASCENDE - RT1 trial is the first and only existing trial comparing low - dose - rate prostate brachytherapy (LDR - PB) for the curative treatment of prostate cancer with any other method of radiation therapy delivery.

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«Intermediate risk prostate cancer may be well controlled with brachytherapy alone.»

The authors focused on men newly diagnosed with localized (non-metastatic) prostate cancer in 1995 - 2011 and treated with radical prostatectomy, brachytherapy, radiation therapy, or primary androgen deprivation therapy (PADT).

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.

OC - 0485: «LDR Brachytherapy is Superior to 78 Gy of EBRT for Unfavourable Risk Prostate Cancer: The Results of a Randomized Trial,» Highest scoring 3rd ESTRO Forum abstracts session at 11.50 hrs (CEST) on Monday, 27 April, Main Auditorium.

2009: Faculty Advisor Danny Song, M.D., developed a computer - assisted version of brachytherapy, a prostate cancer therapy that uses radioactive seeds inserted in the prostate to kill cancer cells.

First Study of Its Kind Depicts Benefits of Brachytherapy for Patients with recurrent Prostate Cancer after EBRT Read more

Hi Dr. Greger — My husband has prostate cancer and after two unsuccessful surgeries (brachytherapy and cryosurgery) he is now being given hormone treatments in a drug called Lupron.

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