RT Book, Section
A1 Thawani, Nitika
A1 Mutyala, Subhakar
A1 Pashtan, Itai M.
A1 Devlin, Phillip M.
A2 Sugarbaker, David J.
A2 Bueno, Raphael
A2 Colson, Yolonda L.
A2 Jaklitsch, Michael T.
A2 Krasna, Mark J.
A2 Mentzer, Steven J.
A2 Williams, Marcia
A2 Adams, Ann
SR Print(0)
ID 1105843282
T1 Innovative Radiation Techniques: Role of Brachytherapy and Intraoperative Radiotherapy in Treatment of Lung Cancer
T2 Adult Chest Surgery, 2e
YR 2015
FD 2015
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-178189-3
LK accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1105843282
RD 2024/04/16
AB Brachytherapy,  the  use  of  radioactive  isotopes  placed  directly  on  the  desired  target  tissues  during  surgery  or  placed  endoluminally,  can  be  used  for  treatment  of  lung  cancer.  It  offers  several  theoretic  advantages  when  compared  with  traditional  radiotherapy.  Direct  surgical  placement  of  the  radiation  source  allows  for  specific  targeting  and  uniform  delivery  of  the  radiation  minimizing  the  amount  of  normal  lung  in  the  radiation  field.  This  potentially  limits  radiation  side  effects  and  ensures  patient  compliance  which  has  been  a  major  disadvantage  of  external  beam  radiation  therapy.