- Title
- Virtual HDR Boost for Prostate Cancer: Rebooting a Classic Treatment Using Modern Tech
- Creator
- Wegener, Eric; Samuels, Justin; Sidhom, Mark; Trada, Yunvik; Sridharan, Swetha; Dickson, Samual; McLeod, Nichola; Martin, Jarad M.
- Relation
- Cancers Vol. 15, Issue 7
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cancers15072018
- Publisher
- MDPI
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2023
- Description
- Prostate cancer (PC) is the most common malignancy in men. Internal radiotherapy (brachytherapy) has been used to treat PC successfully for over a century. In particular, there is level-one evidence of the benefits of using brachytherapy to escalate the dose of radiotherapy compared with standard external beam radiotherapy approaches. However, the use of PC brachytherapy is declining, despite strong evidence for its improved cancer outcomes. A method using external beam radiotherapy known as virtual high-dose-rate brachytherapy boost (vHDRB) aims to noninvasively mimic a brachytherapy boost radiation dose plan. In this review, we consider the evidence supporting brachytherapy boosts for PC and the continuing evolution of vHDRB approaches, culminating in the current generation of clinical trials, which will help define the role of this emerging modality.
- Subject
- prostate cancer; stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT); review; boost; brachytherapy; SDG 3; Sustainable Development Goals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1489981
- Identifier
- uon:52813
- Identifier
- ISSN:2072-6694
- Rights
- © 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Language
- eng
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