Interstitial Prostate Brachytherapy: Ldr-PDR-Hdr

Description:

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:

1. Introduction

2. Epidemiology and Prevention of Prostate Cancer

3. Imaging Localised Prostate Carcinoma

4. Patient Selection and Recommendations on Permanent Seed Implantation as Monotherapy for Localized Prostate Cancer

5. Patient Selection and Recommendations: HDR

6. Prostate Brachytherapy Implantation Treatment Techniques

7. HDR Technique

8. Pulsed-Dose Rate Brachytherapy in Prostate Cancer

9. Imaging for Post-implant Dosimetry

10. Dosimetry Planning for Permanent Seeds

11. HDR Planning

12. Postimplant Dosimetry

13. Dose–Response Relationship in Permanent Implant Brachytherapy for Prostate Cancer

14. HDR Versus LDR Seeds

15. Results of Permanent Prostate Brachytherapy

16. Results of HDR Prostate Brachytherapy Treatments

17. Results of PDR Treatments: The AMC PDR Experience

18. Incidence and Prognostic Factors for Complications After Permanent Interstitial Brachytherapy

19. Salvage Treatment for Recurrent Prostate Cancer Following Brachytherapy: For Whom, When and Which?

20. Prostate Cancer Brachytherapy: Radiation Protection Issues