Mayo Clinic Health Manager
Get free personalized health guidance for you and your family.
Get Started
About our e-newsletters
- Free e-newsletters
- Mayo Clinic expertise
- We do not share your e-mail address
Housecall, our weekly general-interest e-newsletter, keeps you up to date on a wide variety of health topics with timely, reliable, practical information, recipes, blogs, questions and answers with Mayo Clinic experts and more. Our biweekly topic-specific e-newsletters also include blogs, questions and answers with Mayo Clinic experts, and other useful information that will help you manage your health.
Housecall Archives
Mayo Clinic Housecall
Stay up to date on the latest health information.
What you get
- Free weekly e-newsletter
- Mayo Clinic expertise
- Recipes, tools and other helpful information
- We do not share your e-mail address
Why it's done
By Mayo Clinic staffBrachytherapy is used to treat several types of cancer, including:
- Breast cancer
- Cervical cancer
- Endometrial cancer
- Eye cancer
- Gallbladder cancer
- Head and neck cancers
- Lung cancer
- Ovarian cancer
- Prostate cancer
- Vaginal cancer
Brachytherapy can be used alone or in conjunction with other cancer treatments. For instance, brachytherapy is sometimes used after surgery to destroy any cancer cells that may remain. Brachytherapy can also be used along with external beam radiation.
- Brachytherapy. Radiology Info. http://www.radiologyinfo.org/en/info.cfm?pg=brachy. Accessed May 4, 2009.
- Radiation therapy and you: Support for people with cancer. http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/radiation-therapy-and-you/allpages. Accessed May 4, 2009.
- Brachytherapy treatments. RT Answers. http://www.rtanswers.org/treatment/brach_treat.htm. Accessed May 4, 2009.
