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Westgerman Prostate Center
Klinik am Ring
Hohenstaufenring 28
D-50674 Cologne, Germany

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Less occurrence of bladder and colon cancer after brachytherapy than after surgery and radiation The risk to develop a bladder or colorectal cancer as a secondary tumor after radiation, e.g., brachytherapy, ...
... That this procedure has been obsolete for quite some time has meanwhile been evidenced by numerous studies. Especially for men with low risk tumors or men over the age of 70, radical prostatectomy might ...
... higher stool frequency cannot be prevented in all cases, which is especially the case when very high doses of radiation have to be delivered due to an advanced tumor stage. A solution is the so-called ...
... once and for all." About 60,000 men in Germany are confronted each year with the diagnoses of prostate cancer and face the difficult task to choose the "right" treatment. If the tumor is confined to ...
... stool frequency cannot be prevented in all cases, which is especially the case when very high doses of radiation have to be delivered due to an advanced tumor stage. A solution is the so-called SpaceOAR ...
... Urology". The investigation showed that men with a low-risk tumor or men who are older than 70, surgery is not the most beneficial treatment method. On the contrary, the operation is associated in part ...
... void once and for all." About 60,000 men in Germany are confronted each year with the diagnoses of prostate cancer and face the difficult task to choose the "right" treatment. If the tumor is confined ...
... was published in a prestigious medical journal. "A temporary increase in the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) after brachytherapy does in many cases not indicate a renewed tumor growth," said Dr. ...
...  brachytherapy is far superior to an operation. In patients with prostate carcinoma, brachytherapy, external irradiation, and surgery lead equal recovery rates, provided the tumor is detected at  ...
...  in a prestigious medical journal. "A temporary increase in the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) after brachytherapy does in many cases not indicate a renewed tumor growth," said Dr. Stephan Neubauer, ...
... is far superior to an operation. In patients with prostate carcinoma, brachytherapy, external irradiation, and surgery lead equal recovery rates, provided the tumor is detected at an early stage. This ...
... be excluded that tumors that probably would never have caused any problems, are detected by the PSA screening, the benefits of testing outweigh any disadvantages. Therapy with minimal side effects Rather ...
... was the brachytherapy, a more refined radiotherapy method in which the smallest radiation sources (seeds) are directly inserted into the prostate. "The seeds destroy the tumor by high dose of targeted ...
For patients with suspected prostate cancer, there is now a new diagnosis technique available. With the so-called real-time elastography, images of the tumor are a more accurate. This not only allows for ...
... Thus, the tumor tissue is destroyed by high doses of targeted radiation from inside. Until a few years ago, pre-planning for a seed implantation was performed leading to a radiation plan calculated a few ...
... radiation, i.e., the radiation source moves from needle to needle and irradiates the tumor site. In this process the needles are firmly fixed in the prostate, so that the target organ and organs at risk ...
... patients 84 percent showed after seven-year treatment a PSA of <0.5 ng / ml. Thus, the seed implantation for localized tumors has proven an equally effective method of prostatectomy (Kupelian et al., ...
... when the tumor is still confined to the area of the prostate, but the first signs of penetration of the prostatic capsule can be identified without that lymph node or bone metastases are present. The advantage ...
In contrast to radiation therapy, which uses electromagnetic radiation (photons), in the proton therapy hydrogen nuclei (protons) are "shot" on the tumor. Using a particle accelerator, the protons are ...
...  actually save lives." While it cannot be excluded that tumors that probably would never have caused any problems, are detected by the PSA screening, the benefits of testing outweigh any disadvantages. ...
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