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To: DD™ who wrote (589)	9/1/1998 11:02:00 AM
From: dfloydr	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 658

Some have talked of awaiting ten year seeding results? Here it is! From The Arizona Republic Newspaper, reprint from THe NY Times 09/01/98 Prostate Cancer killed by radioactive seeding Patients with prostate cancer may be able to avoid radical surgery and subsequent incontinence and impotence with radioactive seeds, no bigger than a grain of rice, that are implanted in the prostate, says a Seattle Doctor who has monitored 152 cancer patients over the past decade . The findings published today in Cancer, the journal of the American Cancer Society, show that, of patients undergoing the treatment, 64% remained clinically and biochemically free of the disease at the 10-year mark. Only 2% died of prostate cancer. In other studies survival rates after radical prostatectomy and external beam radiation, the more conventional forms of treatment, were comparable or significantly lower than with the seed implants, said Dr. Haakon Ragde, the lead author of the study and a urologist at Northwest Hospital in Seattle. Although the seed implant procedure has been around since the turn of the century, the newer procedure uses ultrasound to (guide the) inject(ion of) iodine-125 seeds into the prostate. The seeds produce low level X-rays that destroy tumors from the inside. END. (Note, no mention of palladium seeds. My brother the urologist learned this procedure from Dr. Ragdke and Univ. of W. using palladium, I believe - may just be that palladium has come along more recently and does not yet provide ten year data ... may just be an omission by the writer ? Should probably check the Cancer journal for details.) Floyd Russell