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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.
Tanderup, Kari +5 more
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R. Nath +5 more
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Asian Journal of Oncology, 2016 With evolution of different newer radiotherapy techniques, still the role of brachytherapy in different gynecological malignancies has not sublimed. Most commonly used form of brachytherapy in carcinoma cervix patients is intracavitary brachytherapy ...
Indu Bansal +4 more
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The increasing role of functional visualization modalities for navigation of external beam radiation therapy and brachytherapy in prostate cancer [PDF]
Digital Diagnostics, 2022 Brachytherapy is successfully used in the treatment of malignant neoplasms in males and females and rare cases in children, as an independent method (with localized prostate cancer) or adjuvant with remote focal radiation therapy (with cancer of the ...
Pavel O. Rumyantsev
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Surface brachytherapy: Joint report of the AAPM and the GEC-ESTRO Task Group No. 253.
Medical Physics (Lancaster), 2020 The surface brachytherapy Task Group report number 253 discusses the common treatment modalities and applicators typically used to treat lesions on the body surface.
R. Fulkerson +12 more
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The role of brachytherapy in the management of brain metastases: a systematic review
Journal of Contemporary Brachytherapy, 2020 Purpose Brain metastases have a highly variable prognosis depending on the primary tumor and associated prognostic factors. Standard of care for patients with these tumors includes craniotomy, stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS), or whole brain radiotherapy (
Bhargava Chitti +7 more
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Perpetual role of brachytherapy in organ-sparing treatment for bladder cancer: a historical review
Journal of Contemporary Brachytherapy, 2020 Brachytherapy-based radiotherapy has been applied for decades in the curative treatment for solitary, ≤ 5 cm bladder tumors. This review provides a historical perspective of this organ sparing approach.
Elzbieta van der Steen-Banasik +6 more
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Low‐dose‐rate brachytherapy for prostate cancer: A 15‐year experience in Japan
International journal of urology, 2020 The history of prostate brachytherapy has passed one century. In 1983, modern low‐dose‐rate prostate brachytherapy using a transrectal ultrasound‐guided procedure was introduced.
N. Tanaka +3 more
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Evaluation of brain edema formation defined by MRI after LINAC-based stereotactic radiosurgery
Radiology and Oncology, 2017 Peri-lesional edema is a serious and well-known complication of stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS). Here we evaluated edema risk after SRS and assessed its formation and resolution dynamics.
Harat Maciej +3 more
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Journal of Contemporary Brachytherapy, 2020 Purpose Brachytherapy (BT) forms major treatment modality in squamous cell carcinoma of head and neck cancers (HNC). However, there is a dearth of literature and guidelines for the use in various indications.
R. Bhalavat +9 more
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