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  • Title: Preliminary results with iodine-125 seeds for permanent implantation in patients with localized prostatic cancer.
    Author: Battermann JJ, Boon TA, de Voogt HJ.
    Journal: Radiother Oncol; 1987 Oct; 10(2):91-5. PubMed ID: 3423306.
    Abstract:
    Since August 1981, a permanent implantation with iodine-125 seeds has been performed in 41 patients with localized prostatic cancer. The seeds are implanted through a suprapubic incision. This gives the opportunity also to perform a diagnostic dissection of the regional lymph nodes. In five patients, the nodes were positive. In 4 out of these 5 patients bone metastases became manifest within one year. Two patients died of disseminated tumor, the first also had a local recurrence. Two other patients died shortly after treatment because of heart failure, while a third patient also died of heart failure, 2 years after implantation. Out of 31 patients with a follow-up period of 6 months or longer, distant metastases were found in four, in 2 followed by a local recurrence in the prostate. We can conclude that the preliminary results of this technique are encouraging with only three local recurrences in 41 patients. The prognostic value of positive lymph nodes was once again established.
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