Abstract
The given review of the literature is devoted to a role brachytherapy in treatment of patients with malignant tumor. More than 70 % patients with malignant tumor are treated with radiotherapy in as monotherapy or in combination with other methods of treatment. There are external beam radiotherapy and brachytherapy. Conformal high-dose rate brachytherapy is an alternative means of precise dose escalation that offers similar tumoricidal effects as 3-dimensional (3D) conformal external beam radiotherapy with potential additional advantages. Brachytherapy is used in as monotherapy or in combination in a combination with external beam radiotherapy. Brachytherapy is the gold standard of treatment women with gynecological tumors. Brachytherapy is an alternative treatment option radical prostatectomy. Brachytherapy is the best therapeutic option in the treatment of nonmelanoma skin cancer are localized on anatomical curves and near critical organs (nasal bridge, periorbital region) due to the excellent results and very good cosmetic effects. It is applied also in treatment of patients with head and a neck, esophagus, Klatskin tumor providing high local control.
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