Is There Radiation Still in My Body After Plaque Brachytherapy?

Radiation kills ocular melanoma by disrupting and damaging the DNA - the blueprint for allowing the cancer cells to multiply. The source of the radiation in a brachytherapy plaque is either seeds of iodine-125, seeds of palladium-103 or seeds of ruthenium-106. When the treatment is over, the whole plaque that contains the radiation seeds within it, is removed entirely from the body. There is nothing left behind. Often, a radiation physicist will use a geiger counter to check to be sure that no seeds of radiation "fell out" or "were left behind" in the body. When it is confirmed that nothing has been left behind, and the retrieved plaque has the same number of radiation seeds in it that it started with, you will have no more radiation in the body. #ocularmelanoma #uvealmelanoma #plaquebrachytherapy #radiationuvealmelanoma #radiationocularmelanoma #eyecancer #ocularoncology #radiationtreatment #ocularmelanomatreatment #uvealmelanomatreatment