Application of Brachytherapy in Clinical Practice

Dear Colleagues,

Brachytherapy (or interventional radiotherapy) is a well-established radiotherapy technique with a long history of experience and successful applications. In recent years, there have been a lot of innovations in radiotherapy which included the introduction of hybrid machines, IGRT techniques, and high-technology improvements to treat tumors with a very high accuracy, limiting the doses to the healthy tissues. Nevertheless, brachytherapy has not been considered obsolete because of its peculiarities. The characteristic steep dose gradients obtained by brachytherapy are unique and have multiple clinical applications. Therefore, brachytherapy cannot be considered an old-fashioned technique, and further improvements deserve to be further investigated.

This Special Issue of the Journal of Personalized Medicine focuses on the current state of interventional radiotherapy with particular attention to the clinical practice and the latest findings in the field. It will be an outlook to the innovations of brachytherapy to focus on the features mostly required in present and future clinical practice. This issue invites leading professionals in the field to share, discuss, and integrate clinical practice solutions.

Therefore, we are particularly soliciting papers that feature the most exciting advances in the field of brachytherapy in clinical practice.

Dr. Elisa Placidi
Prof. Dr. Ángeles Rovirosa
Guest Editors

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