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Brachytherapy

What is Brachytherapy?

Brachytherapy is an important method of treating cancer. It works by destroying cancer cells by targeting them with radiation and stopping them dividing and growing.

What can it do for me?

Aboutbrachytherapy.com is a resource website dedicated to explaining brachytherapy treatments for patients and their families and friends. It offers perspectives from both patients and medical professionals as well as insights for each cancer type.

What can it do for me?

Types of cancer

Cervical Cancer

Brachytherapy is clinically proven to be highly effective against cervical cancer with reduced risk of unnecessary damage to surrounding healthy tissues and organs, which reduces the chance of side effects.

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Prostate Cancer

Brachytherapy has been used by doctors to successfully treat prostate cancer for many decades. Brachytherapy is recognized as a standard treatment alongside surgery and external beam radiotherapy (EBRT).

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Breast Cancer

Brachytherapy is clinically proven to be highly effective at preventing breast cancer from returning after surgery. You can receive treatment on an outpatient basis.

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Skin Cancer

There are several options available to treat non-melanoma skin cancer (basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma).

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Rectal Cancer

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