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  2. Management of prostate cancer - Wikipedia

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    Management of prostate cancer. Treatment for prostate cancer may involve active surveillance, surgery, radiation therapy – including brachytherapy (prostate brachytherapy) and external-beam radiation therapy, proton therapy, high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU), cryosurgery, hormonal therapy, chemotherapy, or some combination.

  3. Prostate brachytherapy - Wikipedia

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    Brachytherapy is a type of radiotherapy, or radiation treatment, offered to certain cancer patients. There are two types of brachytherapy – high dose-rate (HDR) and low dose-rate (LDR). LDR brachytherapy is the one most commonly used to treat prostate cancer. It may be referred to as 'seed implantation' or it may be called 'pinhole surgery'. [1]

  4. Does Medicare Cover Prostate Cancer Treatment? - AOL

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    A 2019 study looked into the diagnosis and treatment costs with Medicare for prostate cancer that has not spread to other parts of the body. Researchers estimated that for males 70 years old and ...

  5. External beam radiotherapy - Wikipedia

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    ICD-9-CM. 92.21 - 92.26. [edit on Wikidata] External beam radiation therapy (EBRT) is a form of radiotherapy that utilizes a high-energy collimated beam of ionizing radiation, from a source outside the body, to target and kill cancer cells. A radiotherapy beam is composed of particles which travel in a consistent direction; each radiotherapy ...

  6. Does Adjuvant Therapy Prevent Cancer Recurrence? - AOL

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    Adjuvant therapy typically follows an initial surgery, the primary (non-adjuvant) treatment. If surgery isn’t an option, the initial treatment might be radiation or another treatment considered ...

  7. Radiation treatment planning - Wikipedia

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    Radiation treatment planning. In radiotherapy, radiation treatment planning (RTP) is the process in which a team consisting of radiation oncologists, radiation therapist, medical physicists and medical dosimetrists plan the appropriate external beam radiotherapy or internal brachytherapy treatment technique for a patient with cancer.

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