LDR brachytherapy prostate implants
The Effect of Dose and Quality Assurance in Early Prostate Cancer Treated with Low Dose Rate Brachytherapy as Monotherapy
... a prostate brachytherapy ...I-125 brachytherapy it is likely that the recommendation of 25 implants per year per clinical oncologist may be difficult to ...both LDR and HDR ...
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Canadian Prostate Brachytherapy in 2012
... Prostate brachytherapy can be used as a monotherapy for low- and intermediate-risk patients or in combination with external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) as a form of dose escalation for selected ...
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Trends in targeted prostate brachytherapy: from multiparametric MRI to nanomolecular radiosensitizers
... reported prostate-specific antigen (PSA) <2 ng/mL in 90 % of patients (n = 301) at median 26 month follow-up after being treated with permanent implant CT-guided BT (Koutrouvelis et ...for prostate BT by ...
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Case Report Carcinosarcoma of the prostate in a patient with previous prostatic adenocarcinoma, status post brachytherapy
... Representative tissue sections were further evaluated for amplification of the c-Myc gene by fluorescent in situ hybridization assay per- formed at the Colorado Genetics Laboratory, University of Colorado, Anschutz ...
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A comparative study of radical prostatectomy and permanent seed brachytherapy for low and intermediate risk prostate cancer
... Methods: Patients were selected from our institute’s internal data- base based on preoperative selection criteria from the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) guidelines (2015) for low- and intermediate-risk ...
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Quality of life after low-dose rate-brachytherapy for prostate carcinoma – long-term results and literature review on QLQ-C30 and QLQ-PR25 results in published brachytherapy series
... Prostate-specific QLQ-PR25 symptom scales were negatively correlated with general quality of life (signifi- cant for incontinence burden, urinary-related, bowel- related, and hormonal treatment-related symptoms, ...
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Tools for improving high-dose-rate prostate cancer brachytherapy using three-dimensional ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging
... in prostate cancer localization performance through improved spatial resolution, which can only be fully accounted for by acquiring DCE-MRI with longer acquisition times per ...
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Minimal percentage of dose received by 90% of the urethra (%UD90) is the most significant predictor of PSA bounce in patients who underwent low-dose-rate brachytherapy (LDR-brachytherapy) for prostate cancer
... low-dose-rate brachytherapy (LDR-brachytherapy) ...after LDR-brachytherapy are un- clear, multiple factors including age, prostatitis due to radiation or urinary tract infection, acute ...
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Deep Insertion of Long Slender Needle into Deformable Tissue and the Application for Prostate Brachytherapy.
... Due to the difference of stiffness and the maneuvering behavior, long slender needles can be simply categorized into three groups, soft needles, rigid needles, and flexible needles. According to previous work by Dr. ...
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Comparison of focal boost high dose rate prostate brachytherapy optimisation methods
... HDR prostate brachytherapy and this can reduce prostate size and tumour ...to prostate volume changes boosting based on involved prostate sectors may be the preferred approach to ...
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Analysis of immune status after iodine-125 permanent brachytherapy in prostate cancer
... with presurgery biopsies separately by two senior patholo- gists. All patients were free of chemo or endocrinological therapy before PPB and had not suffered from any other type of tumor. Age, Gleason score, PSA, and ...
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Low dose rate brachytherapy for patients with low or intermediate risk prostate cancer: a systematic review
... Introduction: We review the current evidence for the role of low- dose rate brachytherapy (PB) in patients with low- or intermediate- risk prostate cancer using a systematic review of the literature. ...
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Low dose rate brachytherapy for patients with low or intermediate risk prostate cancer: a systematic review
... Low dose rate brachytherapy CUAJ ? November December 2013 ? Volume 7, Issues 11 12 E783CUAJ ? November December 2013 ? Volume 7, Issues 11 12 ? 2013 Canadian Urological Association T a b le 1 P a ti e[.] ...
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Outcomes of Patients with Unfavorable Prostate Cancer Treated with High-Dose Rate Brachytherapy and External Beam Radiotherapy
... When comparing treatment outcomes of PCa from different studies, it is important to know the distribution of risk groups as this dramatically affects results. The inclusion of patients presenting with two of the ...
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X-Ray Breast Brachytherapy Instead Of 192Ir Mammosite Balloon Brachytherapy
... electronic brachytherapy is based on the use of balloon catheter inside lumpectomy cavity at ...electronic brachytherapy developed by Xoft ...traditional brachytherapy facilities that makes it ...
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Evidence based guideline recommendations on low dose rate brachytherapy in patients with low or intermediate risk prostate cancer
... interstitial brachytherapy for prostate ...on prostate brachytherapy- related morbidity: morbidity outcomes from two prospective randomized multicenter ...versus brachytherapy for ...
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Performance evaluation of a stochastic optimization model for reservoir design and management with explicit reliability criteria
... DESIGN AND MANAGEMENT OPTIMIZATION a significantdecreasein the capacityrequiredfor a given minimum releasewhen the multiple-LDR model and single-LDR model are compared.When two seasons a[r] ...
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First experience of salvage HDR brachytherapy after prostate cancer radiotherapy
... to prostate also has radiobiological basis. Prostate cancer, unlike most other types of cancer, is ...in prostate cancer is low. Where- fore prostate cancer cells are sensitive for high ra- ...
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MRS-guided HDR brachytherapy boost to the dominant intraprostatic lesion in high risk localised prostate cancer
... The MRSI results are show on figure 1. On the upper picture all single voxels included in the volume selected in the spectroscopic sequences are graphically repre- sented in a two-dimensional (2D) image as a grid over- ...
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Use of electronic brachytherapy to deliver postsurgical adjuvant radiation therapy for endometrial cancer: a retrospective multicenter study
... intracavitary brachytherapy, which provides dose rates greater than 100 centigray per hour, can be completed in a shorter time on an outpatient basis, with decreased radiation exposure to nontarget organs and ...
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