Brachytherapy

Brachytherapy (brak-e-THER-uh-pee) is a system that includes setting radioactive material inside your body. Brachytherapy is one kind of radiation treatment that is utilized to treat disease. Brachytherapy is now and then called interior radiation. Brachytherapy permits specialists to convey higher dosages of radiation to increasingly explicit territories of the body, contrasted and the ordinary type of radiation treatment (outer shaft radiation) that ventures radiation from a machine outside of your body.Brachytherapy may cause less symptoms than does outer pillar radiation, and the general treatment time is typically shorter with brachytherapy. Brachytherapy is a kind of inward radiation treatment wherein seeds, strips, or cases that contain a radiation source are put in your body, in or close to the tumor.

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