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Do you feel that HDR brachytherapy alone is adequate treatment for some intermediate-risk prostate cancer patients?

If so, what selection criteria do you use for such patients?
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Radiation Oncology · GammaWest Cancer Services
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Based upon a nearly 300 patient retrospective analysis of intermediate-risk prostate cancer patients at GammaWest Cancer Services, the answer appears to be a simple "yes," and for nearly all intermediate-risk patients. We published this in the Journal of Urology in 2012, and did not intend to select...

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Radiation Oncology · Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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Dose to the prostate is critical for successful management of localized intermediate risk prostate cancer, and HDR brachytherapy can't be beat in this regard. There is a growing body of literature to support this approach.

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