Image-Guided Prostate Brachytherapy

Author(s):  
Robert A. Cormack
2010 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tarun K. Podder ◽  
Ivan Buzurovic ◽  
Ke Huang ◽  
Timothy Showalter ◽  
Adam P. Dicker ◽  
...  

Urology ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 750-754 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel M. Landis ◽  
Delray Schultz ◽  
Robert Cormack ◽  
Clare Tempany ◽  
Clair Beard ◽  
...  

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Sean Peach ◽  
Daniel M. Trifiletti ◽  
Bruce Libby

Prostate cancer is the most common malignancy found in North American and European men and the second most common cause of cancer related death. Since the practice of PSA screening has become common the disease is most often found early and can have a long indolent course. Current definitive therapy treats the whole gland but has considerable long-term side effects. Focal therapies may be able to target the cancer while decreasing dose to organs at risk. Our objective was to determine if focal prostate brachytherapy could meet target objectives while permitting a decrease in dose to organs at risk in a way that would allow future salvage treatments. Further, we wanted to determine if focal treatment results in less toxicity. Utilizing the Medline repository, dosimetric papers comparing whole gland to partial gland brachytherapy and clinical papers that reported toxicity of focal brachytherapy were selected. A total of 9 dosimetric and 6 clinical papers met these inclusion criteria. Together, these manuscripts suggest that focal brachytherapy may be employed to decrease dose to organs at risk with decreased toxicity. Of current technology, image-guided HDR brachytherapy using MRI registered to transrectal ultrasound offers the flexibility and efficiency to achieve such focal treatments.


Author(s):  
T.K. Podder ◽  
I. Buzurovic ◽  
K. Huang ◽  
Y. Yu

Brachytherapy ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. S88
Author(s):  
Evan C. White ◽  
Mitchell Kamrava ◽  
John DeMarco ◽  
Sang-June Park ◽  
Michael Steinberg ◽  
...  

Brachytherapy ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 108
Author(s):  
Thomas G. Shanahan ◽  
Zachariah Gurnsey ◽  
Paul W. Mueller ◽  
Steven Markwell ◽  
Randy B. Maxey

2002 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 505
Author(s):  
Thomas G. Shanahan ◽  
Parashar J. Nanavati ◽  
Paul W. Mueller ◽  
Randy B. Maxey

2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-32
Author(s):  
Shan Jiang ◽  
Nobuhiko Hata ◽  
Bohan Xiao ◽  
Weijin An

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