PMID: 9422265Jan 9, 1998Paper

Innovations and advances in brachytherapy

Seminars in Oncology
J A Stitt, B R Thomadsen

Abstract

The treatment of cancer with radioactive sources using topical molds and intracavitary radium showed the efficacy of brachytherapy long before external radiation therapy became common practice. Brachytherapy is progressing in several clinical directions that reflect technological innovation as well as changes in medical care which combine to provide significant advances in the practice of brachytherapy today. A major change in brachytherapy, the development of high intensity sources, promoted clinical and technologic innovations in high dose-rate brachytherapy. Pulse dose-rate brachytherapy is the use of these sources to treat a target by using pulses of radiation for several minutes each hour with the same overall time and total dose as low dose-rate treatment. Recent novel approaches of using radiotherapy for prevention of restenosis in coronary and peripheral vessels has interested laboratory and clinical researchers. Most of the work toward new source material for brachytherapy centers around intravascular applications. Technology to support brachytherapy continues to advance rapidly. The interaction between images from diverse modalities and the various phases of the treatment planning is the basis of enhanced treatment pl...Continue Reading

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