Philadelphia -- U.S. medical scientists have issued new guidelines for analyzing the radiation dose delivered to the prostrate and nearby organs in brachytherapy procedures.
Brachytherapy is a cancer treatment that involves placing radioactive sources, such as pellets, within or close to a tumor. The new guidelines, co-authored by Professor Yan Yu, director of medical physics at Thomas Jefferson University, call for the radiation dose to be carefully analyzed using post-implant computerized tomography or magnetic resonance imaging and uniformly documented in every patient.
