PROSTATE BRACHYTHERAPY

In recent years there has been an increase in the number of centres, e specially in the USA, using prostate brachytherapy as a means of treat ing localised prostate cancer. Several centres now have medium term fo llow up data of large numbers of patients treated with this technique suggesting that outcome in terms of tumour control may be comparable t o patients treated surgically. This review summarises results from dif ferent brachytherapy series and outlines some of the possible advantag es of this technique compared with current conventional treatments for localised prostate cancer.