Salvage High Dose Rate Brachytherapy For LocallyRecurrent Prostate Cancer

Abstract

Research study of salvage interstitial radiotherapy of prostate cancer (PC) recurrence was started in the end of the XX century. Lately more and more attention has been paid to the high-dose rate brachytherapy (HDR-BT) as a way of achieving local tumor control. According to a number of authors the preliminary evidence of HBRBT revealed a high efficiency of local PCR control at the trough level of toxic response from critical pelvic organs [1-3].