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{weblog_name} - Prosate Seed Implantation For Treating Prostate Cancer
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Prostate seed implantation is a highly successful treatment option for localized prostate cancer. Over the last twelve years, it has become one of my preferred methods of treating prostate cancer. During that time I have personally performed almost three hundred seed implantations in conjunction with a radiation oncologist. Seed implantation (also call prostate brachytherapy) is typically performed as an outpatient. It can be easily managed in a hospital or even in an outpatient ambulatory surgery center. Typically the patient will go home with an indwelling catheter to drain their bladder. All of my patients remove their own catheter the morning after the procedure. There are two main techniques used and they are both successful. Each urologist or radiation oncologist will have his or her bias as to which is best. What is most important is their long term results.… read more