Sentences with phrase «radioactive seeds»

Among his options are surgery, radioactive seed implants, external radiation or some combination of treatments, he said.

Those choices include active surveillance, radical prostatectomy, external beam radiation treatment, and brachytherapy, a treatment that involves inserting radioactive seeds into the prostate.

Interstitial brachytherapy, or the implantation of tiny radioactive seeds into brain or spinal tumors.

Following this, 198 men received LDR - PB in which tiny radioactive seeds were implanted in the prostate gland while under general or spinal anaesthesia.

Brachytherapy is a type of radiation therapy (RT) where radioactive seed implants are inserted directly into a patient's tissue to deliver treatment to the tumor while limiting radiation exposure for surrounding tissue.

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.

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.

- Oncura Corporation (a subsidiary of GE Healthcare and the manufacturer of the radioactive seeds used in the trial).

In the case of the prostate, usually a radioactive seed is inserted into the patient and it goes directly to the tumor.

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.

The device is a handheld metal detector that can be inserted into a surgical incision to help locate small titanium markers without an invasive procedure to insert a localizing wire or radioactive seed.

A little fuzzier underwriting guideline has to do with men who chose to forgo the prostatectomy and instead have a radioactive seed implant.