"It’s crucial that patients and their families know about this new option," said Dr. William Russell, an oncology radiologist ...

Just over 10 years ago, Canadian researchers set out to assess the risk of secondary malignancy among men with prostate cancer who were treated with a type of radiation called brachytherapy.

Learn about surgery vs. radiation for prostate cancer. There are three main types of radiation therapy: brachytherapy, external beam radiation, and radiopharmaceuticals. Brachytherapy involves ...

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Brachytherapy uses sealed radioactive sources that are placed directly into tumors (interstitial) or in body cavities (intracavitary). One example is the implant of some 125Iodine inside the prostate ...

So we get seeds, in our case Iodine-125, we inject them into the prostate and this cures the patient of the cancer," says Prof Peter Mungai Ngugi a Urologist at Nairobi Hospital. Brachytherapy is ...

Permanent brachytherapy is used, for example, to treat prostate cancer. » Does temporary brachytherapy treatment require hospitalization? In most temporary brachytherapy treatments, patients stay in ...

Brachytherapy Device Market Limited expertise in certain regions restricts the widespread adoption of brachytherapy US, NY, UNITED STAT ...

He was unaware that brachytherapy errors at the Philadelphia ... Dr. Kao used radioactive seeds to attack the patient's prostate cancer, but later Rev. Flippin learned that he received a ...

Prostate cancer is frequently seen as an area of ... being considered for radical treatment (surgical prostatectomy or brachytherapy). MRI is used to exclude direct extracapsular tumor extension ...

Dr. William Russell specializes in radiation oncology in Baton Rouge. He graduated from the University of Mississippi School of Medicine in 1984. Russell is double-board certified in internal ...