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BRACHYTHERAPY

Specialty Definition: BRACHYTHERAPY

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Health

A collective term for interstitial, intracavity, and surface radiotherapy. It uses small sealed or partly-sealed sources that may be placed on or near the body surface or within a natural body cavity or implanted directly into the tissues. (references)

Medicine

Radiotherapy in which one or more closed radioactive sources are utilised to deliver gamma radiation or beta radiation at a distance up to a few centimetres either by surface, intracavitary or interstitial application. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: BRACHYTHERAPY

Specialty definitions using "BRACHYTHERAPY": internal radiation. (references)

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Commercial Usage: BRACHYTHERAPY

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References

  • International Brachytherapy SA: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Intravascular Brachytherapy Physics No. 66: Report of the Aapm Radiation Therapy Committee Tg #60 (reference)

  • Renaissance of Interstitial Brachytherapy (reference)

  • Stereotactic Biopsy and Brachytherapy of Brain Tumors (reference)

  • Vascular Brachytherapy (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: BRACHYTHERAPY

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Health

Optimal management utilizes megavoltage radiation energies and brachytherapy. (references)

Radiation therapy for stage IA2 disease consists of intracavitary brachytherapy. (references)

Conflicting data exist on whether to remove the uterus or to leave it in place to assist brachytherapy. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: BRACHYTHERAPY

CountryName
Belgium

International Brachytherapy SA

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BRACHYTHERAPY

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

brachytherapy

186

brachytherapy intracoronary

3

prostate brachytherapy

18

brachytherapy vascular

3

prostate cancer brachytherapy

9

breast cancer brachytherapy

3

breast brachytherapy

6

brachytherapy heart

3

hdr brachytherapy

6

brachytherapy intravascular

3

brachytherapy coronary

6

brachytherapy effects side

3

american brachytherapy society

5

brachytherapy dosimetry fricke gel

3

brachytherapy cardiac

4

artery brachytherapy intracoronary

3

brachytherapy dose hdr

4

brachytherapy cylinder vaginal

2

arizona brachytherapy center medical prostate university

4

brachytherapy cancer prostate treatment

2

high dose rate brachytherapy

4

137 brachytherapy cesium in

2

arizona brachytherapy cancer prostate tucson

3

137 brachytherapy cesium in

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: BRACHYTHERAPY

Language Translations for "BRACHYTHERAPY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

brachyterapi, cerebral radiumimplantation. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

branchetherapie, brachytherapie, plesiotherapie, endotherapie. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

brakyterapia, lyhytetäisyyksinen sädehoito. (various references)

   

French

  

brachythérapie, brachyradiothérapie, radiothérapie de contact, radiothérapie dans laquelle une source fermée ou un groupe de telles sources est utilisé pour fournir des rayonnements gamma ou bêta une distance jusqu' quelques centimètres,soit par application en surface,intracavitaire ou interstitielle, plésioroeúntgenthérapie. (various references)

   

German

  

Brachytherapie, Kontaktbestrahlung, Endotherapie. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

βραχυθεραπεία. (various references)

   

Italian

  

brachiterapia, plesioroentgenterapia, curieterapia. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

achytherapybray

   

Portuguese

  

braquiterapia. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

braquiterapia, radioterapia intersticial. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

brackyterapi. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: BRACHYTHERAPY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-e-h-h-p-r-r-t-y-y"

-4 letters: heptarchy, tracheary.

-5 letters: hatchery, heptarch, thearchy.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Names: Company Usage
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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