There are no randomized trials to guide treatment decisions between radiotherapeutic and surgical options for patients with high-risk localized prostate cancer. Comparative studies have been limited ...

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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 -- ...

SAN ANTONIO -- Men with intermediate- and high-risk prostate cancer treated with external-beam pelvic radiotherapy (EBRT) had better quality of life (QOL) outcomes when the combined prostate ...

Lars Fokdal, a consultant at the Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark, who led the study. Ureteral stricture – a narrowing of the tube that takes urine from the kidneys to the bladder – is a rare but ...

The ocular plaque consists of an assembly of discrete sources. (A) Cross section of a 12 mm brachytherapy applicator with 16 sources; (B) the applicator is surrounded by 1.3 mm thick gold shielding to ...

Brachytherapy-based regimens appear to be effective salvage treatment for localized radiorecurrent prostate cancer, investigators reported at the 2024 ASCO Genitourinary Cancers Symposium in San ...

Association of low PTEN expression by fluorescence immunohistochemistry (F-IHC) and lethal disease in men with surgically-treated prostate cancer (PrCa). This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2018 ...

Brachytherapy is a type of radiation therapy. It involves placing radioactive material inside or near a tumor to destroy cancer cells. The procedure has some benefits over other radiation techniques ...