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Brachytherapy for Localized Prostate Cancer
Posted by: urologysurgery on: February 21, 2009
“Brachy”(therapy), meaning “short” in Greek, describes treatment with radioactive sources or materials placed into, or at a short distance from, the tissue to be radiated. Brachytherapy stands in contrast to “tele”(therapy), Greek for “long,” which refers to external radiation delivered at a distance from the patient and the tumor. Although early attempts at delivering this [...]
