ASTRO
This page includes the latest news from the American Society of Radiation Oncology (ASTRO), including news and video coverage from the society's annual meeting. ASTRO is the premier radiation oncology society in the world, with more than 10,000 members who are physicians, nurses, biologist, physicists, radiation therapists, dosimetrists and other healthcare professionals who specialize in treating patients with radiation therapy.
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News | Clinical Decision Support | June 16, 2020
June 16, 2020 — Philips and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center announced a collaboration to provide...
News | Radiation Therapy | June 10, 2020
June 10, 2020 — A new clinical guideline from the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) provides...
Stephen M. Hahn, M.D., Commissioner of Food and Drugs - Food and Drug Administration
News | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | June 05, 2020
June 5, 2020 — The following speech was delivered by Stephen M. Hahn, M.D., Commissioner of Food and Drugs - Food and...
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Videos | Information Technology | December 01, 2020
Treating cancer effectively often includes a combination of patient therapies. In recent years, technology advancements...
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News | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | May 21, 2020
May 21, 2020 — Despite facing challenges such as limited access to personal protective equipment (PPE) following the...
News | ASTRO | May 04, 2020
May 4, 2020 — Although the 2020 ASTRO Annual Meeting is still months away, the American Society for Radiation Oncology...
360 Photos | 360 View Photos | April 30, 2020
The company .decimal at ASTRO showed a 3-D printing technology where radiation therapy (RT) bolus shields can be...
Varian received FDA clearance for its Ethos therapy in February 2020, shown here displayed for the first time at ASTRO 2019. It is an adaptive intelligence solution that uses onboard AI in the treatment system to take the cone beam CT imaging on the system, compare it to the treatment plan and deliver an entire adaptive treatment plan in a typical 15-minute treatment time slot, from patient setup through treatment delivery.
Feature | Treatment Planning | April 03, 2020 | Dave Fornell, Editor
The traditional treatment planning process takes days to create an optimized radiation therapy delivery plan, but new...
News | Prostate Cancer | March 30, 2020
March 30, 2020 — In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, a team of radiation oncologists from the U.S. and U.K. is...
Iva Speck, MD, explains research showing that novel, fully digital, high-resolution positron emission tomography/computed tomography imaging of small brain stem nuclei can provide clinicians with valuable information concerning the auditory pathway in patients with hearing impairment. The research is featured in The Journal of Nuclear Medicine (read more at http://jnm.snmjournals.org/content/current). Video courtesy of Iva Speck, University Hospital Freiburg, Germany.
News | PET-CT | March 26, 2020
March 26, 2020 — Novel, fully digital, high-resolution positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT)...
News | Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT) | March 13, 2020
March 13, 2020 — RefleXion Medical, a therapeutic oncology company pioneering the use of biology-guided radiotherapy (...
News | Nuclear Imaging | March 10, 2020
March 10, 2020 — MEDraysintell released its new and unique report “Cyclotrons used in Nuclear Medicine Report &...
News | Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT) | February 27, 2020
February 27, 2020 — Accuray Incorporated announced that Mercy Hospital St. Louis continues to demonstrate its...
News | Nuclear Imaging | February 14, 2020
February 14, 2020 — The nuclear imaging equipment market in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region is expected to grow at a...
News | Radiation Therapy | February 13, 2020
February 13, 2020 — The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) has been awarded a new one-year contract from...
News | Image Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT) | February 11, 2020
February 11, 2020 — Varian announced it has received FDA 510(k) clearance for its Ethos therapy, an Adaptive...
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News | Proton Therapy | February 10, 2020
February 10, 2020 — Amid technological advancement, and notable research and development activities, the global ...
News | Radiation Therapy | February 07, 2020
February 7, 2020 — Accuray Incorporated announced that two new studies demonstrate the benefits of the TomoTherapy ...
Blog | Artificial Intelligence | February 03, 2020
It is not that smart algorithms will one day become too smart, as some fear; not that smart machines will one day...
News | Radiation Oncology | January 30, 2020
January 30, 2020 — Elekta announced that it signed a contract with the Institut Jules Bordet, Brussels, for an Elekta...
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News | Radiation Oncology | January 27, 2020
January 27, 2020 — It's a scene that some cancer patients dream about: they celebrate the end of a course of radiation...
