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Seeds may migrate to lungs during brachytherapy

New Orleans-The radioactive seeds implanted during prostate brachytherapyapparently find their way into the lungs of more than one-third of patients,according to researchers from the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Universityof Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, New Brunswick.

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