Sentences with phrase «radioactive seed implants»
Among his options are surgery, radioactive seed implants, external radiation or some combination of treatments, he said.
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Nathan is in Budapest, consumed with a «controversial Hungarian breast - cancer radioactive seed implant treatment thing,» and after sleeping with one of unlicensed surgeon Dr. Zoltán Molnár's patients, he contracts a rare STD that sends him to Toronto in search of the man who first discovered the disease.
A little fuzzier underwriting guideline has to do with men who chose to forgo the prostatectomy and instead have a radioactive seed implant.
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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.
Following this, 198 men received LDR - PB in which tiny radioactive seeds were implanted in the prostate gland while under general or spinal anaesthesia.