Department of Brachytherapy for Prostate Cancer, Tsukinowa, Seta, Shiga 520-2192, Japan
Review Article
Emergence of Quality Low-Dose-Rate (LDR) Brachytherapy: Ultimate Radiosurgery for Non-Metastatic Prostate Cancer
Author(s): Keisei Okamoto*
Current advents of new technology in prostate cancer treatment still carries
many problems regarding oncological outcome: Local control remains
elusive, with biochemical failure ultimately occurring in half of the patients
diagnosed by PSA screening. Failure of the initial treatment imposes many
kinds of physical, psychological, and economical burdens on the patients,
such as toxicities caused by salvage hormonal therapy or radiotherapy, risk
for developing Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer (CRPC), and financial
insecurity after second or third salvage drug therapy
Considering these potential adverse effects, physicians should conduct
prostate cancer treatment with the utmost care and attention to details. In
order to minimize local recurrence the author has invented a novel technique,
called the “Ten-Step Method,” for seed implanta.. View More»
DOI:
10.35248/2572-5130.21.s4.001-004
