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Title: Retroperitoneal fibrosis as a long-term complication of radiation treatment for prostate cancer.(Letters to the Editor)(Disease/Disorder overview)(Letter to the editor)
Author: Ranjeeta Mani
Publication: Southern Medical Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2007
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Volume: 100 Issue: 5 Page: 545(3)

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Retroperitoneal fibrosis as a long-term complication of radiation treatment for prostate cancer.(Letter … An article from: Southern Medical Journal

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Title: Surgery tops radiation for stage T3 prostate cancer.(Urology)
Author: Alicia Ault
Publication: Internal Medicine News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 15, 2005
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Volume: 38 Issue: 14 Page: 41(1)

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Surgery tops radiation for stage T3 prostate cancer.: An article from: Internal Medicine News

One of many. Edited for time. I am only stage t1c and will only need 25 sessions.

Dr. Sanfilippo discusses both internal and external radiation for the treatment of prostate cancer. The NYU Department of Radiology is recognized as one of the premier radiology departments in the world. Visit us at: SmilowProstateCancerCenter.org prostate-cancer.med.nyu.edu

The Calypso targeting system provides a new level of precision in the treatment of prostate cancer. Working like GPS for the prostate, the Calypso system uses three tiny beacons placed in the prostate gland to triangulate and guide the radiation system to hit only the prostate with cancer-killing radiation and sparing the surrounding healthy areas. The Nebraska Medical Center was one of just five American hospitals that took part in the original clinical trials for Calypso. “I am extremely excited to be able to offer men radiation therapy using Calypso. Out of all the radiation targeting therapies used to treat cancer today, the Calypso system is the most advanced and the most accurate,” said Charles Enke, MD, radiation oncologist at The Nebraska Medical Center and chairman of the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Dr. Enke said Calypso is also the only system that doesn’t require human interpretation to pinpoint the tumor target. Instead, tiny electromagnetic sensors about the size of a grain of rice are implanted in the patient’s prostate before treatment. Then, during the entire treatment, the sensors continuously transmit information back to Calypso, 10 times per second, regarding the position and motion of the prostate. “We knew the prostate moved during radiation treatment, but we were surprised to learn from the pre-FDA approval study just how much, and how often it moves,” Dr. Enke said. To account for that motion …

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Radiation Treatments for Prostate Cancer Medical Straight Talk Series

Radiation therapy and surgery for treatment of prostate cancer can result in loss of potency, incontinence, and other side effects, although the extent of change in a person’s quality of life depends on the treatment he receives and his individual condition. When deciding on a course of treatment for prostate cancer you should carefully consider these impacts with your doctor. For more information, please visit www.mskcc.org

Provided by Alta Bates Summit Medical Center located in Oakland and Berkeley, California in the East Bay Area. When we are discussing carcinoma of the prostate, if the prostate tumor is what we call low risk, that is a low Gleason score, a low PSA, and a low stage the patient may be a candidate for any number of treatments options including radical surgery, external beam radiation, permanent seed implant, or high dose rate Brachytherapy. Unlike external beam radiation, where the treatment comes from the outside in, with high dose rate brachytherapy the treatment is from the inside out. And we do that by inserting hollow, thin surgical plastic catheters into the prostate gland through the skin of the bottom. And a sealed radiation source is afterloaded into the hallow catheter. So the prostate tumor is radiated from the inside out in as opposed to the outside in as with external beam radiation. It takes about an hour to do the procedure. Then the patient goes to the recovery room and then after that we bring the patient up to our department and do a CT scan which will show us that array of catheters and the surrounding normal anatomy, the bladder, the rectum and urethra which runs directly through the middle of the target. Using that information we come up with a treatment plan to optimize the dose to that specific anatomy. Once the calculations are complete the patient is moved to a treatment room and attached to a treatment machine called an afterloader which is a …

Dr. Brian Larson, MD of the Van Scott Cancer Center in Birmingham, Alabama, explains the IGRT prodcure for the treatment of prostate cancer. The Van Scott Cancer Center is located at the Urology Centers of Alabama, a leading center for the treatment of prostate cancer using modern techniques such as Robotic Prostatectomy, Seeds, and the IGRT system. Find out more by visiting www.urologycentersalabama.com