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Surgical Oncology Clinics of North America, 2003
Although several modalities have been discussed, a comprehensive intraoperative program should have IOERT, IOHDR, and perioperative brachytherapy facilities available to treat all sites. Interstitial brachytherapy is preferable for the treatment of gross residual tumor; IORT (IOERT for accessible sites and IOHDR for poorly accessible sites) is added to
Subir, Nag, Kenneth S, Hu
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Cervix cancer brachytherapy: High dose rate

Cancer/Radiothérapie, 2014
Cervical cancer, although less common in industrialized countries, is the fourth most common cancer affecting women worldwide and the fourth leading cause of cancer death. In developing countries, these cancers are often discovered at a later stage in the form of locally advanced tumour with a poor prognosis.
P, Miglierini +4 more
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Dose determination in high dose-rate brachytherapy

International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, 1992
Although high dose-rate brachytherapy with a single, rapidly moving radiation source is becoming a common treatment modality, a suitable formalism for determination of the dose delivered by a moving radiation source has not yet been developed. At present, brachytherapy software simulates high dose-rate treatments using only a series of stationary ...
Pavel V. Houdek +10 more
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High Dose Rate Prostate Brachytherapy

2021
High Dose Rate (HDR) brachytherapy is a safe and effective method of treating men with prostate cancer. It is used in the definitive setting as monotherapy or in combination with hormonal therapy and/or external beam radiation therapy. It is also used in the salvage setting for local recurrence after primary radiotherapy.
Alexander A. Harris +9 more
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brachytherapy
humans
radiotherapy dosage

3. good health
prostate cancer
radiotherapy

male
female
dose-response relationship, radiation