On April 17th, Regional Cancer Care Northwest’s multidisciplinary brachytherapy team reached an exciting milestone: The 100th high dose rate (HDR) prostate brachytherapy procedure at our Hospital was completed!
Prostate brachytherapy is a type of radiation therapy that can be used to treat some stages of prostate cancer. HDR brachytherapy involves placing radioactive sources in the prostate gland and delivering a high dose of radiation in a few minutes before the sources are removed. The radiation can destroy the cancer cells while causing less damage to nearby healthy tissues.
Congratulations to the team!
