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brachytherapy for prostate cancer
Indications:
- prostate cancer
- primary treatment in low-risk prostate cancer
- adjunctive treatment to external-beam radiotherapy & androgen deprivation in high-risk prostate cancer [1]
Clinical significance:
- no survival advantage over external-beam radiotherapy
General
brachytherapy
References
- Chin J, Rumble RB, Kollmeier M et al
Brachytherapy for Patients With Prostate Cancer: American
Society of Clinical Oncology/Cancer Care Ontario Joint Guideline
Update.
J of Clinocal Oncology. March 27, 2017
PMID: 28346805
http://ascopubs.org/doi/full/10.1200/JCO.2016.72.0466