 Brachytherapy
"Brachytherapy" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A collective term for interstitial, intracavity, and surface radiotherapy. It uses small sealed or partly-sealed sources that may be placed on or near the body surface or within a natural body cavity or implanted directly into the tissues.
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D001918
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E02.815.150
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| Concept/Terms |
Brachytherapy- Brachytherapy
- Radioisotope Brachytherapy
- Curietherapy
- Brachytherapy, Radioisotope
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Brachytherapy" by people in UAMS Profiles by year, and whether "Brachytherapy" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2022 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2020 | 3 | 1 | 4 | | 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2017 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2014 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2012 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 2010 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2007 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2006 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2002 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1998 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1997 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1994 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1992 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Brachytherapy" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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Prabhu AV, Peterman M, Kesaria A, Samanta S, Crownover R, Lewis GD. Virtual reality technology: A potential tool to enhance brachytherapy training and delivery. Brachytherapy. 2023 Nov-Dec; 22(6):709-715.
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Lin LL, Ndlovu N, Lowenstein J, Wirth M, Lee J, Stier EA, Garg M, Kotzen J, Kadzatsa W, Palefsky J, Krown SE, Einstein MH. Quality Assurance in Clinical Trials Requiring Radiation Therapy in Sub-Saharan Africa. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2023 06 01; 116(2):439-447.
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Prasad RN, Gokun Y, Ritter AR, Jhawar SR, Vudatala S, Wang SJ, Martin D, Diaz DA. Prostate brachytherapy utilization in the COVID-19 era: A?cross-sectional study of radiation oncologists in the United States. Brachytherapy. 2023 Jan-Feb; 22(1):53-57.
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Abtahi M, Safaei AM, Sheikhzade P, Gholami S. A Dosimetric evaluation of a high dose rate cobalt-60 brachytherapy source using shielded, single and multi-channel cylinder applicators for gynecological cancers. Med Dosim. 2022 Winter; 47(4):318-324.
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Dahshan BA, Weir JS, Bice RP, Renz P, Cifarelli DT, Poplawski L, Hack J, Vargo JA, Cifarelli CP. Dose homogeneity analysis of adjuvant radiation treatment in surgically resected brain metastases: Comparison of IORT, SRS, and IMRT indices. Brachytherapy. 2021 Mar-Apr; 20(2):426-432.
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Gabr A, Kulik L, Mouli S, Riaz A, Ali R, Desai K, Mora RA, Ganger D, Maddur H, Flamm S, Boike J, Moore C, Thornburg B, Alasadi A, Baker T, Borja-Cacho D, Katariya N, Ladner DP, Caicedo JC, Lewandowski RJ, Salem R. Liver Transplantation Following Yttrium-90 Radioembolization: 15-Year Experience in 207-Patient Cohort. Hepatology. 2021 03; 73(3):998-1010.
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Patel MA, Fazli Y, Sivakumar S, Dennis C, Maraboyina S, Prabhu AV, Kim T. Brachytherapy vs external beam therapy among NSCLC patients undergoing limited surgical resection. J Cancer Res Clin Oncol. 2021 Mar; 147(3):853-861.
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Son J, Chambers LM, Carr C, Michener CM, Yao M, Beavis A, Yen TT, Stone RL, Wethington SL, Fader AN, Burkett WC, Richardson DL, Staley AS, Ahn S, Gehrig PA, Torres D, Dowdy SC, Sullivan MW, Modesitt SC, Watson C, Veade A, Ehrisman J, Havrilesky L, Secord AA, Loreen A, Griffin K, Jackson A, Viswanathan A, Ricci S. Adjuvant treatment improves overall survival in women with high-intermediate risk early-stage endometrial cancer with lymphovascular space invasion. Int J Gynecol Cancer. 2020 11; 30(11):1738-1747.
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Miljanic M, Prabhu AV, Patel M, Lewis GD, Kim T. Analysis of patent innovation in the field of brachytherapy. Brachytherapy. 2020 Jul - Aug; 19(4):510-517.
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Tinkle CL, Lu J, Han Y, Li Y, McCarville BM, Neel MD, Bishop MW, Krasin MJ. Curative-intent radiotherapy for pediatric osteosarcoma: The St. Jude experience. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2019 08; 66(8):e27763.
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Thomas J, Prabhu AV, Heron DE, Beriwal S. Twitter and brachytherapy: An analysis of "tweets" over six years by patients and health care professionals. Brachytherapy. 2018 Nov - Dec; 17(6):1004-1010.
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Damato B, Hope-Stone L, Cooper B, Brown SL, Salmon P, Heimann H, Dunn LB. Patient-reported Outcomes and Quality of Life After Treatment of Choroidal Melanoma: A Comparison of Enucleation Versus Radiotherapy in 1596 Patients. Am J Ophthalmol. 2018 09; 193:230-251.
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Tanner EJ, Ojalvo L, Stone RL, Levinson K, Temkin SM, Murdock T, Vang R, Sinno AK, Fader AN. The Utility of Sentinel Lymph Node Mapping in High-Grade Endometrial Cancer. Int J Gynecol Cancer. 2017 09; 27(7):1416-1421.
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Fallahpoor M, Abbasi M, Parach AA, Kalantari F. Internal dosimetry for radioembolization therapy with Yttrium-90 microspheres. J Appl Clin Med Phys. 2017 Mar; 18(2):176-180.
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Azzalini L, Al-Hawwas M, L'Allier PL. Very late bioresorbable vascular scaffold thrombosis: a new clinical entity. EuroIntervention. 2015 May 19; 11(1):e1-2.
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