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- The use of permanent radioactive implants (125I or 103Pd seeds) to treat selected localized prostate cancer patients has been rapidly increasing all over the world in the last fifteen years.
To date, it is estimated that more than 50,000 patients are treated this way every year in the world, and this number is anticipated to increase in the near future.
Although no accident or adverse effects involving the medical staff and/or members of the patient family have been reported so far, this brachytherapy technique raises a number of radiation safety issues which need specific recommendations from ICRP.
- All data concerning the dose received by the persons approaching the patients after the implantation have been reviewed. Those doses have been either directly measured or calculated. The available data show that, in the vast majority of cases, the dose to comforters and carers remains well below the 1 mSv/year li

TABLE OF CONTENTS: CONTENTS

PREFACE

ABSTRACT

MAIN POINTS

SUMMARY



1. INTRODUCTION

2. DOSE FROM THE PATIENTS
2.1. Public and family members, comforters and carers
2.2. Direct measurements from the patients
2.3. Theoretical calculations
2.4. Direct dose monitoring of family and household members
2.5. Recommendations

3. EXPELLED SOURCES
3.1. Migrating and expelled sources
3.2. Radiation risks related to an expelled source
3.3. Recommendations

4. CREMATION
4.1. Current national recommendations
4.2. Activity remaining in patient's ashes

4.3. Potential airborne release

4.4. Recommendations for cremation

5. SUBSEQUENT PELVIC OR ABDOMINAL SURGERY

6. FATHERING OF CHILDREN

7. TRIGGERING OF SECURITY MONITORS

8. SECONDARY CANCERS



APPENDIX A : Characteristics of the main permanently implanted radioactive sources

APPENDIX B : Dose measurement technique after implantation

APPENDIX C : Example recommendations to be given to the patients undergoing prostate brachytherapy with permanently implanted seeds

APPENDIX D : Personal identification card to be given to patients undergoing a permanent seed implantation

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PAGES: pages

PUBLISH DATE: 01/01/2006

ISBN Number: 80446590

USA Book Price: $110
UK Book Price: £74

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