Radioactive seeds are an effective and very exciting therapy for men who are not candidates for surgery or don't want surgery. What that involves is taking tiny little rice-sized pellets, making ...

In a shocking disclosure, Dr. Murali Ankem, a resident in Urology at the Robert Wood Johnnson Medical Centre of the University of New Jersey Medical In a shocking disclosure, Dr. Murali Ankem, a ...

In Meraouna et al.'s study, the failure-free survival rate was 66% at 3 years of follow-up. Regarding treatment-related morbidities, 12.3% of patients experienced grade 3 genitourinary (GU) toxicity, ...

The post-procedure summary says that all went well when Dr. Kao used radioactive seeds to attack the patient's prostate cancer, but later Rev. Flippin learned that he received a substandard implant.

Men undergoing radiation therapy for prostate cancer who experience side effects early in treatment may face a higher risk of ...

Learn more about internal radiation for cervical cancers or internal radiation for cancer in the uterus or vagina. Permanent prostate seed implant is an internal radiation treatment for patients with ...

Aggressive treatments are merely designed to remove the cancer, get it out of ... That includes some of the new radiation techniques, radioactive seed therapy, hormone therapy were also becoming ...

Men with prostate cancer have a slightly better long-term side effects profile with radiation seed implants than they do with surgery, according to a study. Men with prostate cancer have a ...

Men undergoing radiation therapy for prostate cancer who experience side effects early in treatment may face a higher risk of developing more serious long-term urinary and bowel health issues, ...

PROVIDENCE — For decades, researchers have known that implanting radioactive seeds during surgery to remove ... But modern medicine treats cancer differently, with minimally invasive procedures ...