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Comments (0)Today’s discussion will open the topic of radiation therapy as definitive treatment for prostate cancer. Just as there are multiple ways to perform extirpative surgery, there are also multiple ways of treating prostate cancer with radiation. What differs between them is that extirpative surgery removes the prostate irrespective of the approach, whereas the multiple methods of radiation therapy differ in their theoretic rationale for how to treat the disease. There are multiple methods of dispensing radiation into the prostate gland and while I do not plan to go in-depth with each method, I will take at least a couple of the treatment options and discuss them specifically. This may not be a fully inclusive list but at the present the following are currently the most utilized methods of dispensing radiation to the prostate: Prostate Brachytherapy - also call prostate… read more
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Radiation Therapy To Treat Prostate Cancer
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