Our comprehensive and technologically advanced Clinic for interventional radiotherapy-brachytherapy enjoys worldwide recognition. Brachytherapy is an internal radiation treatment, using radioactive sources. This is the main factor that makes it differ from external radiotherapy, where rays are administered to the patient from outside the body.

In High Dose Rate (HDR) Brachytherapy, small needles (catheters) are placed directly into or next to the tumor, under the image guidance of CT Scan, MRI, PET/CT, Ultrasound, and/or a combination of them. Tubes/cables will then be connected to the needles, and will link to a machine which stores the radioactive source (Iridium – 192). The source will then be administered to the patient for a specific time, which is calculated for the so-called “radiotherapy plan” by our Medical Physicists. With this very targeted and precise method, high-dose radiation is delivered right into the tumor, and at the same time the surrounding healthy tissues are well protected by it.

Brachytherapy can be applied, either independently or in combination with external radiotherapy, as a highly effective treatment for many types of cancer, especially prostate, cervical and breast cancer, soft tissue sarcomas, and also in liver and lung metastases.