Brachytherapy
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Brachytherapy, also known as sealed source radiotherapy or endocurietherapy, is a form of radiotherapy where a radioactive source is placed, under the guidance of imaging, within or next to the area requiring treatment.
Brachytherapy has been used to treat:
- prostate cancer
- breast cancer (often post-lumpectomy 1)
- cervical cancer
- head and neck cancers
- endoluminal tumours
- cutaneous and ocular cancers
- benign conditions
- pterygium
- keloid scarring
Treatment and prognosis
Complications
Side effects associated with brachytherapy treatment of prostate cancer include:
- urinary symptoms, often short-lived
- infertility or
impotencyimpotence (6-50%) - migration of seeds out of the treatment region
- therefore important to filter urine to recover the radioactive seeds
- brachytherapy seed migration to the lung
-<li><a href="/articles/prostatic-carcinoma-1">prostate cancer</a></li>- +<li><a href="/articles/prostate-cancer-3">prostate cancer</a></li>
-<li><a href="/articles/oesophageal-carcinoma-1">esophageal cancer</a></li>-<li>endobronchial tumours</li>- +<li><a href="/articles/oesophageal-carcinoma-1">oesophagal cancer</a></li>
- +<li><a title="Endobronchial tumours" href="/articles/tracheal-and-endobronchial-lesions">endobronchial tumours</a></li>
-<li>infertility or impotency (6-50%)</li>- +<li>infertility or impotence (6-50%)</li>
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