Brachytherapy is an internal radiation therapy that people may have during treatment for endometrial cancer. A doctor may suggest brachytherapy after surgery or if surgery is not an option. The ...

Pelvic second malignancy occurred twice as often after brachytherapy for prostate cancer as compared with radical prostatectomy, a large retrospective review showed. Second pelvic malignancy -- ...

Internal radiotherapy gives radiation from inside the body. It is also known as brachytherapy. A small radioactive material called a source is put into your body, inside or close to the cancer. Or ...

Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): High Dose Rate (HDR) Brachytherapy machines to be installed in four medical colleges—Bhopal, Indore, Gwalior, and Rewa—for cancer treatment in Madhya Pradesh cost more than ...

Brachytherapy is a type of radiation therapy. It involves placing radioactive material inside or near a tumor to destroy cancer cells. The procedure has some benefits over other radiation techniques ...

A radiation oncology professional in a workshop on implementing image-guided brachytherapy, held during the IAEA International Conference on Advances ...

Brachytherapy, a form of internal radiotherapy, has emerged as a promising treatment modality for patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). This technique involves the precise implantation of ...

Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer in the United States. For most people, surgery is the recommended choice for treatment. But there is another option that doesn’t involve surgery. It’s ...

The University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Radiation Oncology and the O’Neal Cancer Center have opened a new brachytherapy suite, a facility that is designed to provide brachytherapy to ...

Patient Decision Aid for Chemotherapy or Exclusion in Cisplatin-Intolerant Patients With Locally Advanced Cervical Cancer: Development, Alpha Testing, and Peer Validation During the first 3-year ...