Tell your doctor if you are pregnant or plan on getting pregnant. You will need to talk about the benefits and risks of using Dimetapp while you are pregnant. Tell your doctor if you are breast-feeding. You will need to talk about any risks to your baby. How is this medicine (Dimetapp) best taken? Use this medicine as ordered by your doctor.
Implanting permanent radioactive seeds in the prostate is a method of treating cancer. The procedure allows a concentrated dose of radiation to be delivered directly to the prostate cancer, limiting damage to other tissue.
All radiation treatments except brachytherapy are limited to this prostate dose to avoid side effects. This lower dose has a 10 year PSA relapse-free survival of 85% (depends on the prostate cancer risk). The higher prostate dose can only be achieved by the limited area of radiation emitted from individual seeds.