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Permanent seed brachytherapy

Permanent seed brachytherapy (March 2019)

This factsheet describes how permanent seed brachytherapy may be used to treat prostate cancer, who can have it, the advantages and disadvantages, what happens after treatment, and the possible side effects. It does not describe external beam radiotherapy or high dose rate brachytherapy.

Author(s)
Prostate Cancer UK
Place of publication
London
Publisher
Prostate Cancer UK
Date of publication
March 2019
Pages
16pp
Supplier
www.prostatecanceruk.org
Subject(s)
Brachytherapy, Permanent seed brachytherapy, Radiotherapy, Prostate cancer
Format
Factsheet
Language
English
Flesch readability score
61.7
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