Interstitial Prostate Brachytherapy: LDR-PDR-HDR by György Kovács,Peter Hoskin

By György Kovács,Peter Hoskin

Prostate brachytherapy has been the topic of heated debate between surgeons and the proponents of some of the brachytherapy equipment. This first actual interdisciplinary e-book at the topic offers a complete evaluation of concepts in low dose cost (LDR), excessive dose cost (HDR), and pulsed dose fee (PDR) interstitial brachytherapy for the administration of neighborhood or in the community complicated prostate melanoma. as well as precise chapters on sufferer choice and using imaging in diagnostics, remedy information, and implantation regulate, history chapters are incorporated on comparable clinical physics matters equivalent to remedy making plans and caliber coverage. the consequences received with the several remedies and the tricky activity of salvage therapy are absolutely mentioned. All chapters were written by way of the world over well-known specialists who for greater than a decade have shaped the educating employees liable for the winning GEC-ESTRO/EAU Prostate Brachytherapy educating Course.

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