The treatment options for prostate cancer have been significantly expanded over the past 20 years. In particular, there has been a significant development in radiation therapy. Brachytherapy is a new, gentle form of treatment for patients with localized prostate carcinoma.
There are two basic techniques of brachytherapy:
Brachytherapy has experienced increasingly widespread use in the United States over the past 25 years. It has established itself as a standard procedure alongside total surgical removal of the prostate.
The West German Prostate Center informs you about the current scientific findings in a fact sheet on brachytherapy .
Brachytherapy - Especially gentle for the patient
For you as a patient, this method has decisive advantages:
- It is minimally invasive, i.e. particularly gentle.
- It can be done on a short-stay basis.
- It has significantly lower side effects and higher potency rates than surgical prostate removal.
At the West German Prostate Center, brachytherapy is one of the main focuses. Patients are cared for in close cooperation between urologists and radiation therapists. The successful cooperative collaboration has already proven itself in over 8500 treatments.
