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Interventional Radiation Therapy pp 245–255Cite as

Cancer of the Prostate: Brachytherapy Techniques

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Prostate cancer is the most common as well as the most frequently irradiated genitourinary malignancy. In addition, it is among the most successfully treated malignancies of the genitourinary tract, both in definitive and metastatic presentations.

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  1. Department of Radiation Oncology and Nuclear Medicine, Hahnemann University, Mail Stop 200, Broad and Vine, Philadelphia, PA, 19102-M92, USA

    Luther W. Brady M.D., Christopher Koprowski M.D., Anne Marie Borofsky M.D. & David A. Lightfoot M.A.

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Brady, L.W., Koprowski, C., Borofsky, A.M., Lightfoot, D.A. (1991). Cancer of the Prostate: Brachytherapy Techniques. In: Sauer, R. (eds) Interventional Radiation Therapy. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84163-7_32

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