This Review highlights current areas of controversy and development in the field of transperineal permanent prostate seed implantation brachytherapy (PPI), in particular the technological evolution of ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Among men with good sexual function before treatment with low-dose brachytherapy for prostate cancer, erectile function is likely to remain good over the long term, ...

To examine the difference in Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA)-Relapse Free Survival (RFS) in patients (pts) with prostate cancer treated with permanent prostate brachytherapy (PPB) alone (monotherapy) ...

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 -- ...

Approximately one in eight men will develop prostate cancer, which is the second-leading cause of cancer death in American men and typically affects patients who are 65 or older. Fortunately, the ...

Further enhancement of natural killer (NK) activities and interferon (IFN)-gamma production by recombinant human interleukin-12 (rhIL-12) in the patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC) during the ...

The 15-year OS rate was 60% among prostate brachytherapy recipients and 55% among EBRT recipients, indicating no significant difference between the arms. In prostate cancer, prostate brachytherapy (PB ...

Results from the NRG Oncology NRG-RTOG 0232 clinical trial adding external beam radiotherapy (EBRT) to brachytherapy (BT) in men with intermediate-risk prostate cancer indicate that there was no ...

The optical fibre sensor can be placed within a brachytherapy needle for direct tumour dose monitoring. (Courtesy: Biomed. Opt. Express 10.1364/BOE.385610) Low-dose-rate (LDR) brachytherapy, in which ...

Randomized Trial of Systemic Therapy After Involved-Field Radiotherapy in Patients With Early-Stage Follicular Lymphoma: TROG 99.03 Unfortunately, this self-fulfilling prophecy has now turned in a new ...