ABSTRACT
During the last two decades, surgery and radiotherapy have been the treatment modalities most frequently used to treat patients with prostate cancer. However, the specific indications for the different surgical procedures and/or radiotherapy techniques available remain under debate. Although a thorough discussion of this general topic is outside the scope of this chapter, it is important to recognize the prominence brachytherapy treatments have achieved. To this respect, The American Urologic Society,1 and the American College of Radiology,2 patterns of care of utilization have reported the significant increase of utilization of brachytherapy during the last decade.
