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Is it "high-dose rate" or "high-dose-rate" brachytherapy. - See it both ways ??

Posted: Jul 29, 2010

High dose rate brachytherapy - Grace

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This probably is not going to help much, but I have used high-dose-rate, high-dose rate, high dose rate,High Dose Rate and HDR, depending on the doctor's preference. Most places love the abbreviations for $ reasons, so most I've typed for use HDR. Do you have any guidelines provided to you by your company? I've noticed most of my clients do not like hyphens--REALLY do not like hyphens! I wish I knew why.

high-dose-rate is - my preference

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When in doubt, though, I think "high dose rate" - without any hyphens - is not inappropriate.

they each mean different things. - deenibeeni

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It's correct to use both hyphens in this case, as "high-dose-rate" is the adjective phrase that modifies "brachytherapy." If you say "high-dose rate brachytherapy," then you are saying there is an entity called "rate brachytherapy" and the patient is being given the high-dose type. All that said, there are times I don't use hyphens at all, like for "small bowel." I was on another board once where an MT who had done GI for years gave the best argument I'd heard for not using them, which was: It's always understood that for the phrase "small bowel resection," we know it's a small bowel and not a small resection. No one is ever going to talk about a bowel resection without saying which one it is, large or small. So we can assume the "large" or "small" is tied to "bowel." So the hyphens aren't needed because there won't be any confusion. That made sense to me, & I quit using them that day.

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