Brachytherapy of the prostate: where the seeds go.April 29, 2015. Many patients with higher-risk localized prostate cancer are treated with external beam radiation or with brachytherapy (seed implants). A clinical trial conducted by Dr James Miller (right) of Vancouver, Canada has found that patients receiving permanent implant brachytherapy "seeds" plus a boost of radiation have a better chance of long-term survival than those treated with higher dose-escalated external beam radiotherapy but without the implants.
January 7, 2006. A new radiation therapy for prostate cancer -- Cesium-131 brachytherapy -- has fewer side effects than other treatments. NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center is the only hospital in the Northeast to offer the new therapy.
