| 11. | There are several different devices that deliver breast brachytherapy.
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| 12. | Brachytherapy with implanted seeds ( for prostate cancer ) was first described in 1983.
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| 13. | Typical tumour sites treated by PDR brachytherapy are gynaecological and head and neck cancers.
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| 14. | Alternative treatments include brachytherapy, or intracoronary radiation.
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| 15. | In addition, the BC Cancer Agency provides prostate brachytherapy services to Saskatchewan province.
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| 16. | APBI treatments can be given as brachytherapy or external beam with a linear accelerator.
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| 17. | Brachytherapy is still in the initial stages,
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| 18. | The effectiveness of brachytherapy vs . prostatectomy still is under debate in the medical world.
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| 19. | Now doctors will be able to use the new devices, called intravascular brachytherapy systems.
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| 20. | McGinnis said more long-term data is needed to show brachytherapy's effectiveness.
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