Re: Prostate seed implant questions

[Chris Alston <alstonc@odrge.odr.georgetown.edu>]

Carter

If, when you say "prostate seed implants", you mean the "Seattle Method",
i.e., transperineal ultrasound-guided, it was brought to the USA by John
Blasko, MD and Haakon Ragde, MD, from Europe (Norway?) in the mid-eighties.

chris alston
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At 09:10  02/19/98 +0000, you wrote:
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>We have been implanting prostates in Australia for three and a half
>years.   As our seeds come from Chicago, we therefore also experience
>seed delivery problems.  We wrote our own software to do pre and post
>planning which is now used by other centres in Australia.  We also
>run training courses here if anyone is looking for an excuse for a
>trip down under!
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>Annette Haworth
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>> Some general head-scratching questions have come up here in the clinic and I
>> thought I'd ask on the server.  We are considering starting a seed implant
>> program.
>>   1)  Which treatment planning systems are particularly good for prostate
seed
>> implants, and which ones (of the ones capable of doing them) are not good?
>>   2)  Has anyone encountered a Pd-103 seed shortage in light of the I-125
>> shortage?
>>   3)  Is anyone outside of North America doing prostate seed implants?
>>       Thanks,
>>          - Carter Schroy
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