Cancer Therapy

Prostate cancer patients see high survival rates with seed implants

Published in Cancer Weekly, February 20th, 2007

More than ninety percent of men who receive appropriate radiation dose levels with permanent radiation seed implants to treat their prostate cancer are cured of their cancer eight years after diagnosis, according to a study released in a recent issue of the International Journal for Radiation Oncology-Biology-Physics, the official journal of ASTRO.

Seed implants have become a widely-accepted treatment option for early stage prostate cancer because it is very effective at curing the cancer, is minimally invasive and often spares patients from side effects of other treatments, such as impotence and incontinence. The seeds, similar in size to a grain of rice,...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2007-02-20)

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