What Is High-Dose-Rate Radiation Therapy?

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What is high-dose-rate radiation therapy (HDR)? In this brief video, Maneesh Gossain, M.D., a board-certified radiation oncologist at Central Florida Cancer Care Center explains what high-dose-rate radiation therapy is and how it can benefit certain cancer patients.

“In the older days, there was low-dose-rate therapy where a patient had to be in the hospital,” says Dr. Gossain. “Now we have high-dose-rate, which is given in the office. Typically, a catheter is inserted in different parts of the body based on your tumor.”

“We often use it for breast cancer, we use it for prostate cancer, and we use it for gynecologic tumors. This allows a catheter to be placed in the cavity, and the treatment time is significantly less, side effects are less for the patient, and it's more convenient and easy.”
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