… Clinicians may offer EBRT or LDR brachytherapy or HDR implant brachytherapy as equivalent forms of treatment for favorable intermediate-risk prostate cancer. LDR brachytherapy may also be appropriate in other …
… prostate cancer, LDR brachytherapy is well established as a way to provide treatment in a single outpatient session. LDR brachytherapy involves the placement of radioactive seeds that are permanently implanted …
…Units defines LDR brachytherapy as 0.4 to 2 Gy per hour; PDR brachytherapy delivers doses using the HDR source but treating only 10 to 30 minutes at a time, whereas HDR brachytherapy is delivered at >12 …
…guidance. Low-dose rate brachytherapy is delivered with permanently implanted radioactive seeds, typically using either iodine-125 or palladium-103. High-dose rate brachytherapy uses a temporary radiation …
…administered. The American Brachytherapy Society now advocates using computed tomography (CT) planning with three-dimensional target definition for endobronchial brachytherapy rather than point definition …