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DictionarySeebrachytherapyintracavitary therapy
Radiation therapy in which radioactive materials—iridium-192, radium-226, and other radioisotopes—sealed in needles, seeds, wires, or catheters are placed in direct contact with certain carcinomas to deliver locally intense ionising radiation—e.g., as needed in invasive carcinoma of the uterine cervixintracavitary therapy Brachytherapy, see there. intracavitary therapy A form of treatment in which radioactive material or anticancer medication is placed within a cavity of the body so as to affect a tumour within the cavity, or nearby. |