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How is brachytherapy used to treat advanced prostate cancer?

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Brachytherapy uses small pellets, about the size of rice grains, which slowly give off radiation inside your prostate. Doctors will give you medicine to put you to sleep or make your body numb, then put the pellets in through thin needles.

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