Stereotactic treatment for prostate cancer: An overview

Abstract

In recent years, strong progress in the field of radiotherapy has been made, especially in treatment delivery. Close attention has been paid to prostate cancer in particular because of its high incidence and potential curability. During the last decades, strategies of radiotherapy of prostate cancer have improved with regard to dose escalation, the introduction of modern techniques such as intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) and hypofractionation by stereotactic techniques, or high-dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy.