Foundations of a Brachytherapy Practice
15 Foundations of a Brachytherapy Practice David Jeffrey Demanes, Ron DiGiaimo, Casilda Menchaca-Garcia, and Tamara Syverson The purpose of this chapter is to describe the prerequisites and methods for…
Genitourinary Brachytherapy
4 Genitourinary Brachytherapy André-Guy Martin, Frédéric Lacroix, Thomas Niedermayr, Paul L. Nguyen, and Peter F. Orio, III The predominant form of genitourinary brachytherapy performed worldwide is prostate brachytherapy, either…
Vascular Brachytherapy
14 Vascular Brachytherapy Chien Peter Chen, Ray Lin, and Prabhakar Tripuraneni Vascular disease is the number one cause of mortality and morbidity in the United States. Cardiovascular disease accounts…
Thoracic Brachytherapy
7 Thoracic Brachytherapy Keyur J. Mehta, Nitika Thawani, and Subhakar Mutyala LUNG CANCER In 2015, there will be an estimated 221,200 new cases of lung cancer in the United…
Head and Neck Brachytherapy
9 Head and Neck Brachytherapy J. Nicholas Lukens, Kenneth S. Hu, Peter C. Levendag, David N. Teguh, Paul M. Busse, and Louis B. Harrison Brachytherapy is an important option…
Gastrointestinal Brachytherapy
11 Gastrointestinal Brachytherapy Alexandra J. Stewart, Nikolaos Tselis, Michele Albert, Nitika Thawani, and Arthur Sun Myint Brachytherapy in gastrointestinal cancer is generally underutilized but its uptake is increasing as…
Central Nervous System Brachytherapy
10 Central Nervous System Brachytherapy Abigail L. Stockham and Nils D. Arvold BRACHYTHERAPY FOR MALIGNANT BRAIN TUMORS Primary malignant brain tumors are among the most aggressive of all human…
A Century of Brachytherapy (From the Prostate’s Perspective)
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Skin Brachytherapy
8 Skin Brachytherapy Anna O. Likhacheva, Phillip M. Devlin, and Ivan M. Buzurovic Radiotherapy as a scientific specialty was propelled forward at the turn of the 20th century, in…
Soft Tissue Sarcoma Brachytherapy
12 Soft Tissue Sarcoma Brachytherapy Caroline L. Holloway and Chandrajit P. Raut Soft tissue sarcomas (STS) are an uncommon malignancy that can present throughout the body including the extremities,…
