Abstract
It has been 85 years since Pasteau (1911) in France, and Paschkis and Tittinger (1910) in Austria introduced gamma irradiation through intraurethral radium sources for the treatment of prostatic cancer. Since then, a wide variety of radiation sources have been used in the treatment of this neoplasm (Table 17.1) (Bagshaw 1993). Currently, external beam x-irradiation derived from mid- to high-energy linear accelerators (6–25 MV) is the most widely employed modality, although ultrasound-guided interstitial irradiation is also used. External beam irradiation at 4, 6, and 15 MV has been utilized at Stanford since 1956 in the treatment of 1318 patients with prostatic cancer treated through December 1994. These cases provide the major database for this report.
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Bagshaw, M.A., Cox, R.S., Hancock, S.L. (1996). External Beam Radiotherapy for Localized Prostatic Cancer at Stanford: Update at the 38th Year. In: Petrovich, Z., Baert, L., Brady, L.W. (eds) Carcinoma of the Prostate. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60956-5_17
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