Interstitial Prostate Brachytherapy: LDR-PDR-HDR

✍ Scribed by György Kovács, Peter Hoskin (auth.), György Kovács, Peter Hoskin (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 256
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Prostate brachytherapy has been the subject of heated debate among surgeons and the proponents of the various brachytherapy methods. This very first interdisciplinary book on the subject provides a comprehensive overview of innovations in low dose rate (LDR), high dose rate (HDR), and pulsed dose rate (PDR) interstitial brachytherapy for the management of local or locally advanced prostate cancer. In addition to detailed chapters on patient selection and the use of imaging in diagnostics, treatment guidance, and implantation control, background chapters are included on related medical physics issues such as treatment planning and quality assurance. The results obtained with the different treatment options and the difficult task of salvage treatment are fully discussed. All chapters have been written by internationally recognized experts who for more than a decade have formed the teaching staff responsible for the successful GEC-ESTRO/EAU Prostate Brachytherapy Teaching Course.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-vi
Introduction....Pages 1-2
Epidemiology and Prevention of Prostate Cancer....Pages 3-31
Imaging Localised Prostate Carcinoma....Pages 33-62
Patient Selection and Recommendations on Permanent Seed Implantation as Monotherapy for Localized Prostate Cancer....Pages 63-77
Patient Selection and Recommendations: HDR....Pages 79-85
Prostate Brachytherapy Implantation Treatment Techniques....Pages 87-101
HDR Technique....Pages 103-109
Pulsed-Dose Rate Brachytherapy in Prostate Cancer....Pages 111-117
Imaging for Post-implant Dosimetry....Pages 119-140
Dosimetry Planning for Permanent Seeds....Pages 141-147
HDR Planning....Pages 149-155
Postimplant Dosimetry....Pages 157-168
Dose–Response Relationship in Permanent Implant Brachytherapy for Prostate Cancer....Pages 169-177
HDR Versus LDR Seeds....Pages 179-186
Results of Permanent Prostate Brachytherapy....Pages 187-196
Results of HDR Prostate Brachytherapy Treatments....Pages 197-202
Results of PDR Treatments: The AMC PDR Experience....Pages 203-206
Incidence and Prognostic Factors for Complications After Permanent Interstitial Brachytherapy....Pages 207-213
Salvage Treatment for Recurrent Prostate Cancer Following Brachytherapy: For Whom, When and Which?....Pages 215-238
Prostate Cancer Brachytherapy: Radiation Protection Issues....Pages 239-253
Back Matter....Pages 255-260

✦ Subjects

Radiotherapy;Oncology;Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons;Urology/Andrology