Individual applicator for brachytherapy for various sites of superficial malignant lesions.

J Contemp Brachytherapy

Brachytherapy Department, Hospital in Brzozów, Podkarpacki Oncology Centre, Brzozów, Poland.

Published: March 2013

The aim of this paper is to discuss brachytherapy treatment and individual applicators suitable for unfavorably localized superficial malignant lesions. Techniques for manufacturing an individual applicator and clinical examples of its use for various locations of cancer are presented. This techniques are based on individual size and shape of the tumour. CT-planning make the technique adequate for individual patient history and type of tumour. Featured techniques seems to be very useful and easy to performed.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3635046PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/jcb.2013.34340DOI Listing

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