Brachytherapy

"Brachytherapy" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

MeSH information

Definition | Details | More General Concepts | Related Concepts | More Specific Concepts

A collective term for interstitial, intracavity, and surface radiotherapy. It uses small sealed or partly-sealed sources that may be placed on or near the body surface or within a natural body cavity or implanted directly into the tissues.

Descriptor ID	D001918
MeSH Number(s)	E02.815.150
Concept/Terms	Brachytherapy Brachytherapy Radioisotope Brachytherapy Curietherapy Brachytherapy, Radioisotope Plaque Therapy, Radioisotope Plaque Therapy, Radioisotope Radioisotope Plaque Therapy Therapy, Radioisotope Plaque Surface Radiotherapy Surface Radiotherapy Radiotherapy, Surface Radiotherapy, Intracavity Radiotherapy, Intracavity Intracavity Radiotherapy Radiotherapy, Interstitial Radiotherapy, Interstitial Interstitial Radiotherapy Radiotherapy, Implant Implant Radiotherapy

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Brachytherapy".

Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment [E]
Therapeutics [E02]
Radiotherapy [E02.815]
Brachytherapy [E02.815.150]

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Brachytherapy".

publications

Timeline | Most Recent

This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Brachytherapy" by people in this website by year, and whether "Brachytherapy" was a major or minor topic of these publications.

Bar chart showing 358 publications over 30 distinct years, with a maximum of 23 publications in 2013

To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.

Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1996	5	4	9
1997	4	2	6
1998	5	3	8
1999	9	4	13
2000	8	2	10
2001	10	7	17
2002	6	2	8
2003	12	3	15
2004	6	5	11
2005	10	1	11
2006	10	6	16
2007	6	6	12
2008	9	2	11
2009	8	4	12
2010	13	3	16
2011	14	6	20
2012	15	6	21
2013	15	8	23
2014	13	4	17
2015	4	9	13
2016	13	0	13
2017	6	2	8
2018	8	1	9
2019	7	0	7
2020	10	2	12
2021	12	1	13
2022	10	0	10
2023	7	1	8
2024	6	0	6
2025	3	0	3

Below are the most recent publications written about "Brachytherapy" by people in Profiles.

Shields CL, Suribhatla R, Romero M, Ealer C, Bansal R, Emrich J, Komarnicky-Kocher L, Lally SE. TISSUE GLUE-ASSISTED PLAQUE RADIOTHERAPY FOR CHOROIDAL TUMORS WITH SCLERAL THINNING. Retina. 2025 04 01; 45(4):675-682.

View in: PubMed
Baniel CC, Lichter KE, Frick MA, Wu J, Oladipo E, Wu YF, SwamyS A, Hsu IC, Prionas N, Blomain ES, Kidd EA, Buyyounouski MK, Rosenbluth G, Mohamad O, Bagshaw HP. The NorCal brachytherapy waste audit: A simple, validated, toolkit for clinician led waste reduction. Brachytherapy. 2025 Jul-Aug; 24(4):622-630.

View in: PubMed
Calabresi K, Emrich J, Belko S, Pugliese R, Komarnicky-Kocher L, Mourtada F. 3D-printed template design to improve 125I seed plaque assembly accuracy for uveal brachytherapy. Brachytherapy. 2025 May-Jun; 24(3):420-430.

View in: PubMed
Montreuil J, Kholodovsky E, Markowitz M, Torralbas Fitz S, Campano D, Geiger E, Hornicek F, Crawford B, Keisch M, Temple HT. Brachytherapy for Soft Tissue Sarcoma: Maintaining Local Control While Minimizing Complications. J Surg Oncol. 2025 Apr; 131(5):965-975.

View in: PubMed
Mourtada F, Belko S, Monane R, Pugliese R, Komarnicky-Kocher L, Lally SE, Wang W, Shields CL, Emrich J. A novel 3D printing method for a notched eye plaque "dummy" for uveal melanoma brachytherapy. Brachytherapy. 2025 Jan-Feb; 24(1):86-91.

View in: PubMed
Boyle C, Mourtada F, Anne R, Wan S, Chen Y, Vinogradskiy Y, Taleei R. Comprehensive commissioning of a cone beam CT imaging ring for treatment of HDR GYN patients. Brachytherapy. 2024 Nov-Dec; 23(6):687-697.

View in: PubMed
Cappelli L, Emrich J, Komarnicky-Kocher L, Vinogradskiy Y, Mourtada F. I-125 eye-plaque seed economics: To re-use or to not re-use? A single institutional cost savings analysis of re-using I-125 radioactive seeds for eye-Plaque brachytherapy. Brachytherapy. 2024 Jul-Aug; 23(4):463-469.

View in: PubMed
Wang W, Emrich J, Mourtada F. J Appl Clin Med Phys. 2024 Aug; 25(8):e14395.

View in: PubMed
Eiger-Moscovich M, Shields CL, Eagle RC, Milman T. BRCA-associated protein1 (BAP1) immunohistochemical stain reliability in postbrachytherapy uveal melanoma enucleation specimens. Indian J Ophthalmol. 2024 May 01; 72(Suppl 3):S459-S467.

View in: PubMed
Dockery PW, DeSimone JD, Liu CK, Achuck K, Hamburger J, Bas Z, Shields CL. Effectiveness of treatment for iris melanoma: surgical versus radiotherapeutic approaches. Can J Ophthalmol. 2024 Oct; 59(5):329-334.

View in: PubMed

People

Explore

Similar Concepts

Top Journals

The Thomas Jefferson University web site, its contents and programs, is provided for informational and educational purposes only and is not intended as medical advice nor is it intended to create any physician-patient relationship. Please remember that this information should not substitute for a visit or a consultation with a health care provider. The views or opinions expressed in the resources provided do not necessarily reflect those of Thomas Jefferson University, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, or the Jefferson Health System or staff.
Please read our Privacy Statement