Prostate Cancer

Radioactive seed implantation safe and effective as alternative to surgery

Published in Cancer Weekly, June 3rd, 2003

In the first long-term study of real-time radioactive seed implantation as a treatment for prostate cancer, researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have confirmed it to be a safe and effective alternative to surgery, especially for many younger men.

Findings of the study, presented at the recent annual meeting of the American Urological Association in Chicago, demonstrated that most low-risk patients treated with radioactive seed implantation remain cancer-free after 10 years.

"These finding will particularly change our treatment of younger patients with prostate cancer," said the study's author, Nelson N. Stone, MD, clinical professor of...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2003-06-03)

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