Or you can pick your poison, choosing between surgery to remove the prostate and one of two forms of radiation, external beam radiation and radioactive "seeds" implanted in the gland itself.

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If this (topdown) manufacturing process is to be based on the most modern forms of deposition (including epitaxy), e-beam or ultra-deep UV lithography and precision etching, the mainstay of microelectronics and optoelectronics fabrication, then there are strict limits described below for which one-off fabrication is possible, but manufacture is not.

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