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Fiducial markers- are they necessary?
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Oct 24 9:12am | Replies (23)Comment receiving replies
I know that for some types of radiation treatments they use the gold markers. It could be that the cancer they are seeing is better located by gold markers than regular tattoos. Ask your doctors why they are using gold markers instead of tattoos. I know that they use them for both SBRT and IMRT radiation, But when I had that kind of radiation, they just used tattoos.
It’s possible they get a better target for the radiation using the gold markers since they are placed quite close to the spots to be radiated.
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When we had consultations with RO for possible adjuvant, we were told that my husband would have gold markers inserted to make radiation more targeted. Since gland was removed they wish to mark the place where cancer cells would most probably be - like anastomosis , etc. They are inserted by urologist.