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dc.contributor.authorAronowitz, Jesse N.
dc.date2022-08-11T08:10:45.000
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-23T17:18:47Z
dc.date.available2022-08-23T17:18:47Z
dc.date.issued2012-03-01
dc.date.submitted2014-01-25
dc.identifier.citationBrachytherapy. 2012 Mar-Apr; 11(2):157-62. doi: 10.1016/j.brachy.2011.03.003 <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.brachy.2011.03.003">Link to article on publisher's site</a>
dc.identifier.issn1538-4721 (Linking)
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.brachy.2011.03.003
dc.identifier.pmid21640662
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14038/47929
dc.description.abstractPURPOSE: Urologists had performed prostate brachytherapy for decades before New York's Memorial Hospital retropubic program. This paper explores the contribution of Willet Whitmore, Ulrich Henschke, Basil Hilaris, and Memorial's physicists to the evolution of the procedure. METHODS AND MATERIALS: Literature review and interviews with program participants. RESULTS: More than 1000 retropubic implants were performed at Memorial between 1970 and 1987. Unlike previous efforts, Memorial's program benefited from the participation of three disciplines in its conception and execution. CONCLUSIONS: Memorial's retropubic program was a collaboration of urologists, radiation therapists, and physicists. Their approach focused greater attention on dosimetry and radiation safety, and served as a template for subsequent prostate brachytherapy programs.
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dc.relation.urlhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.brachy.2011.03.003
dc.subjectBrachytherapy
dc.subjectHistory, 20th Century
dc.subjectHumans
dc.subjectMale
dc.subjectProstatic Neoplasms
dc.subjectNeoplasms
dc.subjectOncology
dc.titleWhitmore, Henschke, and Hilaris: The reorientation of prostate brachytherapy (1970-1987)
dc.typeJournal Article
dc.source.journaltitleBrachytherapy
dc.source.volume11
dc.source.issue2
dc.identifier.legacycoverpagehttps://escholarship.umassmed.edu/radiationoncology_pubs/33
dc.identifier.contextkey5020130
html.description.abstract<p>PURPOSE: Urologists had performed prostate brachytherapy for decades before New York's Memorial Hospital retropubic program. This paper explores the contribution of Willet Whitmore, Ulrich Henschke, Basil Hilaris, and Memorial's physicists to the evolution of the procedure.</p> <p>METHODS AND MATERIALS: Literature review and interviews with program participants.</p> <p>RESULTS: More than 1000 retropubic implants were performed at Memorial between 1970 and 1987. Unlike previous efforts, Memorial's program benefited from the participation of three disciplines in its conception and execution.</p> <p>CONCLUSIONS: Memorial's retropubic program was a collaboration of urologists, radiation therapists, and physicists. Their approach focused greater attention on dosimetry and radiation safety, and served as a template for subsequent prostate brachytherapy programs.</p>
dc.identifier.submissionpathradiationoncology_pubs/33
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Radiation Oncology
dc.source.pages157-62


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