Brachy Therapy.

[cobra kid]

Hi all..


Anyone on here got experience of the above, be it yourself or a relative/friend? My dad may be having a shot at it soon so am looking for a bit of laymans knowledge.


Cheers one and all...

[TheEnd]

You get a radioactive rod placed into a tumour, so it does very localised radiotherapy..

Clever stuff.

[cobra kid]

Looks like loads of small seeds with a halflife of about 3 months.

[TheEnd]

Yea, it's quite obvious when you think about it, just use a small weak radioactive source to target just the close surrounding tissue, far less side effects and not as vigorous as chemotherapy.

[Skywalker]

for patient info try looking on the cancerbacup pages


http://www.cancerbackup.org.uk/Treatments/Radiothe...

[moffspeed]

Yep, Bacup information is as accurate as ever.

Incidentally Bacup was founded by the late Dr Vicky Clement-Jones who eventually died of ovarian carcinoma, but not before her charity was well established as a brilliant source of information for cancer sufferers. Her father was Teddy Yip who older PH'ers may remember for his involvement in F5000 and then the Theodore and Ensign F1 teams. Quietly he was a major benefactor of the charity, a good man indeed.