Permanent Seed Brachytherapy Treatment for Prostate Cancer and the Procedure

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Permanent Seed Brachytherapy Treatment for
Prostate Cancer and the Procedure
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• Permanent seed prostate brachytherapy treatment
  is a very well-known procedure, proved to be
  successful in many cases, for prostate cancer.
  The treatment procedure of Permanent seed
  brachytherapy involves implantation of tiny
  radioactive seed into the prostate gland of the
  patient suffering with brachytherapy for prostate
  cancer. The cancer will be reduced, and the
  cancer cells will be destroyed by the radiation
  from these radioactive seeds implanted.

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• The patient suitability for this treatment
  depends on whether the patient is having a
  localized prostate cancer which means having
  cancer contained within the prostate gland, the
  PSA level should be below 10ng/ml, the Gleason
  score should be less than 6 and the cancer stage
  should be between T1 to T2a.
• Even though the PSA level of the patient is
  between 10 and 20 and he is having a Gleason
  score of 7, the patient can still undergo the
  Permanent seed prostate brachytherapy treatment,
  if the cancer he is having is unlikely to spread
  outside the prostate.

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The Permanent seed brachytherapy treatment cannot
be undergone, if

• if the prostate gland is large,
• facing severe problems while passing urine,
• Or, if there is a recent treatment of TURP,
  transurethral resection of the prostate.
• There is also another type of brachytherapy
  called temporary brachytherapy or high dose-rate
  (HDR) brachytherapy which is almost similar to
  permanent seed brachytherapy.

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The Treatment Procedure

• The first step involves a planning session in
  determining the number of radioactive seeds the
  patient needs based on the measurement of the
  size and position of the patients prostate
  gland. This session also determines whether the
  permanent seed brachytherapy treatment is
  suitable for you or not.
• The patient will be given a general anaesthetic
  to make him sleep while undergoing the procedure
  or the patient will be given a spinal or epidural
  anaesthetic which will keep the patient awake but
  cannot feel anything.

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• The main procedure of implantation of radioactive
  seeds will be either on the same day of planning
  session or, they will be implanted 2 to 4 days
  later. One this day again, the patient will be
  given a general anaesthetic or a spinal or
  epidural anaesthetic.
• The patient will be undergone a computerised
  tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging
  (MRI) scan after four to six weeks of the
  treatment to confirm the position of the
  implanted radioactive seeds. And also, the
  patient needs to have a regular follow up
  appointments to check the PSA levels and any side
  effects being faced by the patient, after the
  treatment. The PSA level is dropping and staying
  normal, and then you have a successful treatment,
  even though there is a rise in PSA level, because
  the prostate will produce some PSA. Because of
  this, some patients may have an increase and
  decrease in their PSA levels, after 1 to 2 years
  of treatment.
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