Table 1.

Total number of patients treated in 2007 and 2002, and the number of institutions performing the technique

Sites and number of treatments	2007				2002	2007
	No. of patients	% of incidence	Institutions	Average/Institution	No. of patients	Cancer incidence
Lung – bronchus	3	0.03%	2	1.5	30	10 533
Gyn. – endometrium	211	11.8%	13	16.2	266	1783
Gyn. – cervix	305	41.6%	16	19.1	304	734
Gyn. – vagina/vulva	80	21.3%	14	5.7	16	376
Head and neck	83	9.3%	7	11.9	79	890
Breast	79	0.6%	4	19.8	72	12 930
Anal – canal	26	18.8%	7	3.7	33	138
Prostate – I125	1030	10.7%	13	79.2	419	9588
Prostate – Ir192	20		1	20.0	39
Prostate – HDR	22		1	22.0	0
Oesophagus	333	20.2%	18	18.5	300	1651
Bladder	49	1.8%	9	5.4	56	2688
Skin – tumour	14		3	4.7	44
Skin – keloid	26		5	5.2
Eye	143	76.5%	6	23.8	153	187
Pediatric	3		1	3.0
Other	33		6	5.5	173
Total	2460				1984