Brachytherapy

Brachytherapy Brachytherapy is a action that affect placing radioactive material inside your body. Brachytherapy is one type of radiation therapy that's used to handle cancer. Brachytherapy is sometimes called internal radiation. Brachytherapy allows doctors to convey higher doses of radiation to more-specific places of the body, correlated with the conventional form of radiation therapy (external beam radiation) that projects radiation from a machine external of your body. Brachytherapy may cause fewer side effects than does external beam radiation, and the overall treatment time is usually less with brachytherapy. Brachytherapy is used to treat several types of cancer, including: Bile duct cancer Brain cancer Breast cancer Eye cancer Cervical cancer Endometrial cancer Esophageal cancer Head and neck cancers Lung cancer Skin cancer Pancreatic cancer Prostate cancer Rectal cancer Soft tissue cancers Vaginal cancer Radiation...