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brachytherapy term for prostate carcinoma

Posted By: OpMT on 2008-01-19
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Subject: brachytherapy term for prostate carcinoma

I'm doing a report on a patient being treated for prostate carcinoma, and a ProSeed implant is being done.  The doctor says "needle positioning and total needed calculated dose ______zation were all determined by the radiation oncologist and the physicist and are contained in their separate dictation."


I've been googling in an effort to figure this out, and I tried to find the word by doing a wildcard search on my Rad/Onc electronic reference, but I'm not coming up with it.  It almost sounds as if the word begins with an 'f' or 'ph.'.


 




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