Use of Blood Patch as a Spacer in High-Dose Rate Prostate Brachytherapy with Either Co60 or Ir 192, Another Cost-Effective Way to Improve Outcomes

To describe a useful technique to decrease rectal dose during HDR prostate brachytherapy given as boost to EBRT or as monotherapy. Prostate brachytherapy has evolved in recent years together with the technological and computer development. It has become popular to use high dose rate (HDR) and 3D volumetric planning, using computed tomography (CT) and/or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which has help improving accuracy and conformation of treatment and also the capabilities to dose scaling, due to the real visualization of the target and organs at risk (OARS), the use of tomographic images allows to take actions and optimize the therapeutic index, escalate dose into the tumor, and protect at the same time OARs.
Source: Brachytherapy - Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Tags: Scientific Session: Prostate Snap OralsSaturday, June 9, 201811:30 AM - 12:30 PM Source Type: research