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Low-dose rate brachytherapy has some radiobiological advantages compared to external beam radiotherapy: subletal damages repair during irradiation leading to a relative protection of healthy tissues; no tumor cell repopulation, cell cycle redistribution and a low oxygen enhancement ratio. High dose rate and pulsed dose rate modalities allow an optimization of dose distribution by varying the dwell times over the different dwell positions. Because of the use of afterloaders, they also offer a better radioprotection of the staff. High dose rate and pulsed dose rate treatments seem to offer the same results as low-dose rate brachytherapy, particularly in cervix carcinoma. For high dose rate brachytherapy, schedules must be designed according to the linear-quadratic model. In pulsed dose rate brachytherapy, pulse dose and time intervals must also be derived from the linear-quadratic model, but half-time repair must be taken into account. Copyright © 2013 Société française de radiothérapie oncologique (SFRO). Published by Elsevier SAS. All rights reserved.

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C Hennequin, J-J Mazeron. Radiobiology in brachytherapy]. Cancer radiothérapie : journal de la Société française de radiothérapie oncologique. 2013 Apr;17(2):81-4

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