The urethra is a tube that carries urine from your bladder to the end of your penis.
External beam radiation therapy for prostate cancer.
Brachytherapy is an initial type of radiation and comes in two forms.
Radiation can be produced from a machine outside the body external radiation and directed right at the prostate or by putting materials that produce radiation radioisotopes through thin plastic.
The prostate is a male sex gland that helps make semen.
As the only primary treatment for cancer usually for early stage cancer that is confined to your prostate in combination with.
Sometimes it is given in conjunction with brachytherapy.
When treating prostate cancer there are two main types of radiation external beam radiation and brachytherapy internal radiation.
External beam radiation therapy for prostate cancer is treatment using radiation to kill cancer cells in your prostate.
When it comes to prostate cancer there are two kinds of radiation treatment.
It wraps around your urethra and the bottom of your bladder.
External beam therapy is used as a curative treatment in men with localized prostate cancer stages t1 or t2 or with locally advanced disease.
Permanent low dose brachytherapy and temporary high dose brachytherapy.