July 23, 2009 — Substandard prostate cancer brachytherapy procedures performed at the Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, represent an "isolated incident," according to ...

A radiation oncologist accused of mishandling a large number of radioactive seed implants at the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs hospital has come under additional pressure from Congress. The physician, ...

July 1, 2009 — Earlier this week, a Congressional hearing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was told of "erratic" placement of radiation seeds used in brachytherapy for prostate cancer that had ended up ...

Aside from skin cancer, prostate cancer is the most common cancer for men. About one in seven men will be diagnosed with the disease in their lifetime, and prostate cancer is the third leading cause ...

This Review highlights current areas of controversy and development in the field of transperineal permanent prostate seed implantation brachytherapy (PPI), in particular the technological evolution of ...

In the first significant advancement in brachytherapy in more than 15 years, physicians at UW Medical Center have today (Oct. 26) implanted for the first time in the world a new type of radioactive ...

For patients with prostate cancer, it is a common surgical procedure: a doctor implants dozens of radioactive seeds to attack the disease. But when Dr. Gary D. Kao treated one patient at the veterans’ ...

Prostate cancer patients cut their risk of dying of the disease in half when they receive radiation seed implants to treat their cancer, compared to those who don't receive active treatment, within ...

The prostate is a walnut-sized gland found only in men and people assigned male at birth (AMAB). It sits just below the bladder and surrounds the urethra, the tube that carries pee through your penis.

While Gary Pickering worked for a distribution company in San Diego, he began promoting a test that helps detect if a man has prostate cancer. Called the prostate specific antigen test, or PSA, it ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - When it comes to cancer, there’s one category that may not get as much attention as other forms of the disease September is prostate cancer awareness month, and while it’s the ...

Prostate cancer patients cut their risk of dying of the disease in half when they receive radiation seed implants (brachytherapy) to treat their cancer, compared to those who don’t receive active ...