Annals of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore.
Publisher:
Academy Of Medicine, Singapore. Singapore : Academy Of Medicine, Singapore
Frequency: Monthly, 2006-
Country: Singapore
Language: English
Author(s):
Academy of Medicine (Singapore)
Start Year:1972 -
ISSN:
0304-4602 (Print)
0304-4602 (Linking)
0304-4602 (Linking)
Impact Factor
5.2
2022
| NLM ID: | 7503289 |
| (DNLM): | A34635000(s) |
| (OCoLC): | 01145745 |
| Coden: | AAMSCG |
| LCCN: | sn 82004501 |
| Classification: | W1 AN626JS |
2nd FY Khoo Memorial Lecture. Brachytherapy–one man’s meat, a personal journey in radiation oncology. The Lecture covers the author's personal experience in brachytherapy in radiation oncology, beginning with low-dose rate (LDR) treatments using 226Ra "hot" sources, in the 1960s and early 1970s, through manual afterloading for treating gynaecological cancers with the same sources in the 1970s and 1980s, to high-dose rate (HDR) remote afterloading on a microSelectron HDR machine, from 1989 on. This progression in brachytherapy is discussed, and specific applications to various tumour sites are presented, including long-term results of a personal series of 106 patients with cancer of the uterine...