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Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, 2017 Brachytherapy is a radiotherapy modality associated with a highly focal dose distribution. Brachytherapy treats the cancer tissue from the inside, and the radiation does not travel through healthy tissue to reach the target as with external beam radiotherapy techniques.
Kari Tanderup +2 more
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Tailored contact brachytherapy for challenging facial basal cell carcinomas: clinical results of 3D printing technology implementation [PDF]
Reports of Practical Oncology and RadiotherapyBACKGROUND: Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) often arises on cosmetically and functionally sensitive facial sites where standard contact brachytherapy applicators may not conform optimally. Patient-specific, 3D-printed surface applicators may improve geometric
Artur J. Chyrek +4 more
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RADIOISOTOPES, 2012 Brachytherapy do require a minimal expansion of CTV to obtain PTV and it is called as ultimate high precision radiation therapy. In high-dose rate brachytherapy, applicators will be placed around or into the tumor and CT or MRI will be performed with the applicators in situ.
P Bownes, C Richardson, C Lee
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Prostate International, 2023 Around 40 years have passed since a modern low-dose-rate (LDR) brachytherapy for prostate cancer was introduced. LDR brachytherapy has become one of the definitive treatment options besides radical prostatectomy (RP) and external beam radiation therapy ...
Nobumichi Tanaka
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BMC Cancer, 2022 Background Large-scale trials have shown that hypofractionated adjuvant breast radiotherapy was as effective in terms of survival and local control as conventional fractionated radiotherapy, and acute toxicity was reduced with hypofractionated ...
Marie Bruand +11 more
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Combined Interstitial and Intracavitary High-Dose Rate Brachytherapy of Cervical Cancer
Frontiers in Oncology, 2022 High-dose-rate brachytherapy by remote afterloading is now performed under three-dimensional image guidance by CT or MRI. Three-dimensional image-guided brachytherapy in cervical cancer disclosed that the traditional intracavitary brachytherapy by ...
Jun Itami +13 more
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Life, 2022 (1) Current breast-conserving therapy for breast cancer consists of a combination of many consecutive treatment modalities. The most crucial goal of postoperative treatment is to eradicate potentially relapse-forming residual cancerous cells within the ...
Adam Chicheł +6 more
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Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases, 1998 In recent years there has been an increase in the number of centres, especially in the USA, using prostate brachytherapy as a means of treating localised prostate cancer. Several centres now have medium term follow up data of large numbers of patients treated with this technique suggesting that outcome in terms of tumour control may be comparable to ...
D, Ash, D M, Bottomley, B M, Carey
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Clinical Efficacy and Openness to New Challenges of Low Dose Rate Brachytherapy for Prostate Cancer
Current Oncology, 2023 Over a century ago, low-dose-rate (LDR) brachytherapy was introduced to treat prostate cancer (PCa). Since then, it has been widely applied worldwide, including in East Asia. LDR brachytherapy has been performed in 88 institutes in Japan.
Manabu Kato +10 more
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Clinical progress of brachytherapy for cervical cancer [PDF]
BIO Web of ConferencesCervical cancer is a prevalent malignant tumour of the female reproductive system, posing a significant threat to women's health and lives in China. Brachytherapy is a crucial component of radiotherapy for patients with locally intermediate and advanced ...
Shao Tianchi
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