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• All 201 patients underwent biopsies between 12 and 83 months after brachytherapy.
• Not long ago, brachytherapy was in the same position as cryosurgery.
• Wu also scheduled DeLen for a brachytherapy the next day.
• American Brachytherapy Society : http : / / www . americanbrachytherapy . org
• APBI can be performed with either brachytherapy or with external beam radiation.
• The acute side effects of HDR brachytherapy are broadly similar to EBRT.
• The other radioisotopes of iodine are never used in brachytherapy.
• Brachytherapy can use temporary or permanent placement of radioactive sources.
• Then the brachytherapy device is temporarily placed at the site of the blockage.
• Microspheres and electronic brachytherapy commanded the remaining 30 %.
• There are several different devices that deliver breast brachytherapy.
• Brachytherapy with implanted seeds ( for prostate cancer ) was first described in 1983.
• Typical tumour sites treated by PDR brachytherapy are gynaecological and head and neck cancers.
• Alternative treatments include brachytherapy, or intracoronary radiation.
• In addition, the BC Cancer Agency provides prostate brachytherapy services to Saskatchewan province.
• APBI treatments can be given as brachytherapy or external beam with a linear accelerator.
• Brachytherapy is still in the initial stages,
• The effectiveness of brachytherapy vs . prostatectomy still is under debate in the medical world.
• Now doctors will be able to use the new devices, called intravascular brachytherapy systems.
• McGinnis said more long-term data is needed to show brachytherapy's effectiveness.