Brachytherapy is a form of radiation therapy, by which a radioactive source is placed close to the tumor, either directly adjacent to it or inside the tumor itself. This procedure delivers a high dose ...

So we get seeds, in our case Iodine-125, we inject them into the prostate and this cures the patient of the cancer," says Prof Peter Mungai Ngugi a Urologist at Nairobi Hospital. Brachytherapy is ...

In some cases, a single temporary brachytherapy treatment is given, and in other cases, a series of treatments are administered. Temporary brachytherapy can be used, for example, in breast cancer ...