Objective To describe treatment options for clinically localized prostate cancer: radical
prostatectomy, prostate brachytherapy, external beam radiation, and active surveillance …

This is an evidence-based guideline for prostate brachytherapy. Throughout levels of
evidence quoted are those from the Oxford Centre for Evidence based Medicine …

Low dose rate (LDR) prostate brachytherapy is an evidence based radiation technique with
excellent oncologic outcomes. By utilizing direct image guidance for radioactive source …

We conducted a canine study to investigate the in vivo feasibility of photoacoustic imaging
for intraoperative updates to brachytherapy treatment plans. A fiber coupled to a 1064-nm …

Purpose/Objectives To report long-term efficacy and toxicity for a single-institution cohort of
patients treated with low-dose-rate prostate brachytherapy permanent implant (PI) …

Purpose: A new technique called “curvilinear approach” for prostate seed implantation has
been proposed. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the dosimetric benefit of curvilinear …

Brachytherapy delivers the most conformal high dose radiotherapy possible to the prostate,
using either a low dose rate (LDR) or high dose rate (HDR) technique. It may be used either …

For patients with unfavorable or high-risk prostate cancer, dose escalated radiation therapy
leads to improved progression free survival but attempts to deliver increased dose by …

OBJECTIVE: To describe the acute and late rectal toxicity in 1006 prostate brachytherapy
patients implanted 1998–2003. To determine whether rectal dose–volume histogram as well …

Objective: Low-dose-rate brachytherapy (LDR-BT) in localized prostate cancer is available
since 15 years in Italy. We realized the first national multicentre and multidisciplinary data …