title: [How to prepare the brachytherapy of the future].
abstract: For more than a century, brachytherapy has been a treatment of choice for delivering a high dose in a small volume. However, over the past 15 years, this irradiation technique has stalled. Even so, brachytherapy allows the delivery of the right dose at the right place by dispensing with target volume motion and repositioning. The evolution of brachytherapy can be based on a road-map including at least the following three points: the acquisition of clinical evidence, teaching and valuation of the procedures. The evolution of brachytherapy will be also impacted by technological considerations (end of the production of low dose rate 192 iridium wires). Regarding the evolution toward a personalized treatment, brachytherapy of the future should take its place as a partner of other modern external beam radiation techniques, be performed by experimented actors (physicians, physicists, technicians, etc.) who received adequate training, and be valued in proportion to the delivered medical service.
authors.affiliation: Pôle de radiothérapie oncologique, centre Antoine-Lacassagne, 33, avenue de Valombrose, 06000 Nice, France; Université Nice-Sophia Antipolis, 06000 Nice, France. Electronic address: jean-michel.hannoun-levi@nice.unicancer.fr.
authors.forename: J-M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Hannoun-Lévi
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Peiffert
mesh_terms: D001918:Brachytherapy / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends*; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy; D018787:Radiation Oncology / Q000193:education; D011879:Radiotherapy Dosage; D061089:Radiotherapy, Image-Guided
keywords: Brachytherapy; Curiethérapie; Enseignement; Evidence based medicine; Niveau de preuve; Teaching; Valorisation; Valuation