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.

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 ...

Brain metastases from prostate cancer (PC) seem to be more frequent than in the past, possibly because advances in the treatment of patients with castration-resistant PC have prolonged their survival.

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 ranks as the second highest type of cancer among men, next to skin cancer. Although one out of every eight men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer, more than half of those ...

The hope is the therapy can effectively target cancerous cells at relatively small doses while minimizing side effects.

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 ...

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

Urologic oncology specialists in the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center specialize in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer. The Lester ...