Plain-English explainers for patients, families and professionals, built from official and peer-reviewed sources and updated when guidance changes.
How high-dose-rate and low-dose-rate brachytherapy differ in sources, sessions, hospital stay and precautions, with official sources.
Read the guide → Patient guideInternal vs external radiotherapy side by side: how each works, sessions, when they are combined, and what to ask. Sourced, plain English.
Read the guide → Patient guideAre you radioactive after brachytherapy? When precautions apply (seeds vs HDR), pregnancy, children, pets, travel alarms — with official sources.
Read the guide → Patient guideProstate seed and HDR brachytherapy explained: planning, implant day, recovery, urinary and sexual side effects and follow-up, from official sources.
Read the guide → Patient guideWhy brachytherapy is part of cervical cancer treatment, applicators, number of sessions, pain control, side effects and recovery, with sources.
Read the guide → Patient guideVaginal cuff brachytherapy after hysterectomy for endometrial cancer: why it's used, the cylinder, sessions, side effects and recovery.
Read the guide → Patient guideWhether brachytherapy hurts depends on the site and technique. How anaesthesia, sedation and pain relief are used, by treatment type, with sources.
Read the guide → Patient guideRadiation oncologists, medical physicists, dosimetrists, radiation therapists and nurses: who does what in brachytherapy and how they're qualified.
Read the guide → Patient checklistA printable checklist of questions for your radiation oncologist, plus how to find an experienced brachytherapy centre and check coverage.
Read the guide → Career guideRoutes into brachytherapy for radiation oncologists, physicists and therapists: certification, ESTRO and ABS courses, fellowships and how to compare them.
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