Brachytherapy
Below is an informaion video on Brachytherapy
In the Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation trust, they refer to Exeter for the HDR (high dose rate) brachytherapy which is given before a course of external beam radiotherapy at Torbay Hospital. They tend to refer to the Royal Surrey County Hospital in Guildford for the LDR (low dose rate/seed) brachytherapy.
As there are no videos currently available from the trust, we have used those available from outside the trust. In order to help take away the mystique around what will happen we have posted a video below generated by NHS United Lincolnshire Hospitals taken from the Prostaid.co.uk website.
The Brachytherapy Team at Radiotherapy at NHS United Lincolnshire Hospitals:-
Dr Manuel Pandades: Consultant Clinical Oncologist & Head of Service; Mr Ian Mark: Consultant Urologist; Dr Thiagarajan Sreenivasan: Consultant Clinical Oncologist; Lucy Darby: Advanced practioner in Brachytherapy and Chris Clague: Patient
Discuss Brachytherapy treatment and answer questions and patient Chris Clague relates his own recent experiences of his successful treatment.
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