A mobile prostate cancer screening program proved feasible for men in underserved neighborhoods and led to a high rate of ...

In Meraouna et al.'s study, the failure-free survival rate was 66% at 3 years of follow-up. Regarding treatment-related morbidities, 12.3% of patients experienced grade 3 genitourinary (GU) toxicity, ...

Brachytherapy uses sealed radioactive sources that are placed directly into tumors (interstitial) or in body cavities (intracavitary). One example is the implant of some 125Iodine inside the prostate ...

A nurse-led mobile healthcare clinic identified a high proportion of clinically significant prostate cancers among men from ...

So we get seeds, in our case Iodine-125, we inject them into the prostate and this cures the patient of the cancer," says Prof Peter Mungai Ngugi a Urologist at Nairobi Hospital. Brachytherapy is ...

External beam radiation therapy with or without short-term androgen deprivation showed 15-year survival benefits for ...

He was unaware that brachytherapy errors at the Philadelphia ... Dr. Kao used radioactive seeds to attack the patient's prostate cancer, but later Rev. Flippin learned that he received a ...

Prostate cancer ranks as the second highest type of cancer among men, next to skin cancer. Although one out of every eight men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer, more than half of those ...

In a randomized clinical trial, researchers from Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah (the U) have found that short-course, higher dose vaginal brachytherapy for endometrial cancer had ...

Learn more about Brachytherapy for Breast Cancer ... It can also treat cancer in the lung, liver, and prostate. Huntsman Cancer Institute offers The Edge® Radiosurgery System for Cancer Treatment. The ...