Interstitial Prostate Brachytherapy LDR-PDR-HDR /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kovc̀s, Gyr̲gy. (Editor), Hoskin, Peter. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Radiotherapy.; Oncology.; Urology.; Nuclear physics.; Medicine & Public Health.; Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons.; Urology/Andrology.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36499-0

Prostate brachytherapy has been the subject of heated debate among surgeons and the proponents of the various brachytherapy methods. This very first interdisciplinary book on the subject provides a comprehensive overview of innovations in low dose rate (LDR), high dose rate (HDR), and pulsed dose ra...

Table of Contents:

• Epidemiology of prostate cancer
• Imaging localized prostate cancer
• TRUS volume study imaging for brachytherapy, patient set up and optimize of imaging
• Patient selection and recommendations on permanent seed implantation for localized prostate cancer
• Patient selection and recommendations on HDR
• Seed techniques
• HDR techniques
• PDR techniques
• Imaging for post-implant dosimetry
• Pre-planning for permanent implantation
• Intra-operative seed planning
• Intra-operative HDR planning
• Seeds versus HDR
• Post-implant dosimetry
• Incidence and prognostic factors for complication
• Clinical implications of DVH analysis
• QA for brachytherapy
• Management of side effects and complications
• Radiation protection issues
• Results of seed treatment
• HDR results
• PDR results
• Salvage treatment.