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Brachytherapy
The word 'brachytherapy' originates from the Greek word
'brachy' which means short distance. Brachytherapy is
defined as an interenal radiation therapy with short
distance treatment of malignant disease with radiation
emanating from small sealed (encapsulated) sources. The
sources are placed directly into the treatment volume or
near the treatment volume. The sources can be photon
sources, beta sources and neutron sources.
Brachytherapy can be classified into different types based
on the implant duration, source position, source loading
pattern and dose rate.
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