Description: 1. INTRODUCTION 2. DOSE FROM THE PATIENTS 2.1. Public and family members, comforters and carers 2.2. Direct measurements from the patients 2.3. Theoretical calculations 2.4. Direct dose monitoring of family and household members 2.5. Recommendations 3. EXPELLED SOURCES 3.1. Migrating and expelled sources 3.2. Radiation risks related to an expelled source 3.3. Recommendations 4. CREMATION 4.1. Current national recommendations 4.2. Activity remaining in patients ashes 4.3. Potential airborne release 4.4. Recommendations for cremation 5. SUBSEQUENT PELVIC OR ABDOMINAL SURGERY 6. FATHERING OF CHILDREN 7. TRIGGERING OF SECURITY MONITORS 8. SECONDARY CANCERS APPENDIX A : Characteristics of the main permanently implanted radioactive sources APPENDIX B : Dose measurement technique after implantation APPENDIX C : Example recommendations to be given to the patients undergoing prostate brachytherapy with permanently implanted seeds APPENDIX D : Personal identification card to be given to patients undergoing a permanent seed implantation REFERENCES

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