TREATMENT OF MALIGNANT BRAIN TUMORS WITH INTERSTITIAL RADIOTHERAPY

高级别胶质瘤的中位生存期仍少于一年

Median survival of high-grade gliomas remains less than a year despite multi-modality treatment. Cure is considered anecdotal. These tumors usually have extended beyond the limits of a complete surgical resection and a dose of conventional external beam radiotherapy has been limited by surrounding brain tolerance. We believe that we can achieve a higher radiation dose to the tumor by placing radioactive seeds of Iodine 125 directly into the tumor bed, with a sharp fall-off of radiation to the surrounding normal brain. Hopefully this will achieve a much better therapeutic ratio, especially when delivered at low dose rates.