Boston Herald Reporter Alexi Cohan recently joined Dr. Peter Orio on the “front lines” in order to learn more about brachytherapy for prostate cancer treatment. This article details the brachytherapy procedure process and the benefits that it brings both the patient...
“I urge newly diagnosed men to see a range of specialists before selecting treatment. After talking to a urologist, they should make independent appointments with a radiation oncologist, a medical oncologist, and a brachytherapist to ensure that they become fully...
As a physicist, Dr. Mark Rivard is fascinated by brachytherapy’s ability to provide “conformal, localized” radiotherapy compared to external-beam radiation therapy for treatment of multiple cancer types. He was kind enough to share his thoughts with us in a video...
Building community around the power of Cesium The radiation oncologist community is one of the cornerstones on which we are building the future of brachytherapy at Isoray. As such, in person engagements at the ASTRO Annual Meeting are some of our most important...
The International Journal of Radiation Oncology recently published a study titled Survival Benefit of Adjuvant Brachytherapy After Hysterectomy With Positive Surgical Margins in Cervical Cancer. This study aimed to evaluate the effects on survival rate in patients...
Barbara Touchstone first survived cervical cancer following a radical hysterectomy, radiation and chemotherapy. In spite of the debilitating rigor of her initial course of treatment, the cancer returned in 2015. As a 35-year-old nurse and mother, she had reached the...
