Brachytherapy for prostate cancer is performed under local or general anesthesia.
While the operation a specialist inserts the catheter to maintain the urinating. The 15-30 needles are inserted into the prostate to install the radioactive seeds. Their amount differs.
The duration of prostate cancer treatment with brachytherapy is about 1.5 hours. The hospital stay is 24 hours. Then a doctor removes the catheter; a patient is dismissed.
The cost of brachytherapy for prostate cancer is affected with the quantity of required seeds and is calculated individually.