If you're a man who's just been diagnosed with prostate cancer, you'll want to discuss all your treatment options with your physician and family.

Radiation Oncologist Keith Miller explains, "Patients with prostate cancer can have radioactive seeds actually placed directly into the prostate. And the nice thing about that is that there is less side effects related to the beams."

Dr. Miller says that it's known as seeding or brachytherapy and this minimally invasive outpatient procedure uses low-energy radioactive, rice-sized pellets. "An advantage of placing seeds directly into a cancer is that there might be less radiation dose to some of the tissues surrounding the tumor."

Wallace says that "In my case I was home at 2:00 that very day and did not have a catheter, did not have any kind of treatment or follow up, and I was back at my job the next day. It was a very easy treatment."

Wallace also says that long-term clinical data supporting the use of brachytherapy has shown that more than 87% of men are still free of prostate cancer 10 years after this type of treatment. "I am a prostate cancer survivor, 6 years."

Several weeks or even months after the procedure, the radioactive levels of the implants reduce to nothing. The seeds still stay in the body but are of no concern to the patient.

Brachytherapy can be used to treat many cancers. In some cases the radioactive sources may be permanently left in place; in other cases, they are removed after a specified time.