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Radiation Oncology • Genitourinary Cancers
Do you administer prophylactic antibiotics for GU procedures?
Do you recommend before and/or after procedures? Do you have the same recommendations for any or all the below: hydrogel space, fiducial placement, LDR or HDR brachytherapy.
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
The common GU procedures performed in radiation oncology are transperineal brachytherapy and transperineal retroprostatic hydrogel insertion. Rarely transrectal biopsy or transrectal intraprostatic injections may be performed by radiation oncologists. I don't believe any randomized studies looking a...
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