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Brachy Boost
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Brachy Boost
The administration of lower dose (10–25 Gy) implantable radiation (e.g, with 192Ir to treat the local field—e.g., breast, prostate, oral cancer) in addition to external beam radiation of 45–70 Gy
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During the next 5 months, he received external beam radiation to a dose of 5000 rad followed by high-dose-rate brachytherapy boost of 3 endobronchial applications at 710 rad per fraction (Nucletron MicroSelectron Iridium 192, Nucleotron BV, Veenendaal, The Netherlands).
Aortotracheal fistula secondary to bacterial aortitis by Allende, Daniela S.; Rodriguez, E. Rene; D. Tan, Carmela / Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
4) However, a large proportion of the recurrences are local (about half) so there is a rationale for adding a brachytherapy boost.
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