While HDR brachytherapy may offer advantages such as more practical procedures with outpatient treatment, increased opportunities to optimize the absorbed dose and enhanced radiation protection of ...

When the treatment was terminated, the staff entered the treatment room, disconnected the HDR unit from the implanted catheters and removed the patient. An area radiation alarm indicated high ...

FLASH radiation therapy could one day cure complex tumors and cancers while limiting the toll of radiation on the body. France's Institut Curie hopes to install one of the special machines in its ...

Cervical cancer treatment in Saskatchewan just got a new targeted form a radiation therapy. Patients can now receive new ...

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A new study published in the British Journal of Urology International found that salvage low-dose-rate brachytherapy (LDR-BT) ...

Administration of radiotherapy to patients with head and neck cancer often causes damage to the parotid glands, resulting in a marked decrease in saliva production, and associated discomfort.

Timing of Chemotherapy After MammoSite Radiation Therapy System Breast Brachytherapy ... Partial breast irradiation with interstitial high-dose-rate brachytherapy in early breast cancer: Results ...

In Meraouna et al.'s study, the failure-free survival rate was 66% at 3 years of follow-up. Regarding treatment-related morbidities, 12.3% of patients experienced grade 3 genitourinary (GU) toxicity, ...