Prostate: Low Dose Rate Brachytherapy
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Pei Shuen Lim; Peter Hoskin
- Source
- Brachytherapy ISBN: 9783319267890
- Subject
- business.industry
medicine.medical_treatment
Brachytherapy
Normal tissue
Planning target volume
Seed Implantation
medicine.disease
Low-Dose Rate Brachytherapy
030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging
03 medical and health sciences
Prostate cancer
0302 clinical medicine
medicine.anatomical_structure
Prostate
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
medicine
Nuclear medicine
business
Prostate brachytherapy
- Language
Brachytherapy has the advantage of delivering a high tumoricidal dose of radiation to the target volume, while giving low doses to the surrounding normal tissues as dose falloff obeys the inverse square law. It therefore offers an elegant means of treating prostate cancer avoiding the anatomical disruption of major surgery or the more widespread radiation effects associated with external beam therapy.