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. 

News | Proton Therapy

August 30, 2017 — IBA (Ion Beam Applications S.A.) and the Department of Radiation Oncology at Penn Medicine, in ...

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News | Brachytherapy Systems, Women's Healthcare

August 30, 2017 — iCAD Inc. announced that the company’s Xoft Axxent balloon applicators have received approval from the ...

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News | Oncology Diagnostics

August 22, 2017 — A new UCLA study is the first to identify patient and tumor characteristics that predict the ...

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News | Image Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT)

August 21, 2017 — Accuray Inc. and the Summit Cancer Center-Boise announced that the center is now treating patients ...

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News | Treatment Planning

August 17, 2017 — The proton center at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital will utilize RayStation for planning on ...

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Technology | Treatment Planning

August 15, 2017 — DOSIsoft SA announced the official release, with CE marking, of ISOgray Treatment Planning System (TPS ...

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News | Image Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT)

August 7, 2017 — ViewRay Inc. announced that several presentations of early clinical experience with its MRIdian Linac ...

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News | Radiation Therapy

Each year, up to 650,000 people who were previously diagnosed with various forms of cancer will develop brain metastases ...

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News | Image Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT)

July 25, 2017 — ViewRay Inc. announced recently that the first cancer patients have been treated using the company's ...

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News | Radiation Therapy

July 24, 2017 — Moffitt Cancer Center researchers launched a first-of-its-kind study comparing the long-term benefits of ...

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News | Radiation Therapy

July 21, 2017 — El Camino Hospital (Mountain View, Calif.) announced the installation of a new Calypso 4-D Localization ...

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News | Treatment Planning

July 21, 2017 — RaySearch Laboratories reported that eight additional proton therapy centers worldwide have recently ...

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News | Radiation Dose Management

July 19, 2017 — The American College of Radiology (ACR) recently collaborated with professional medical societies to ...

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News | Radiation Therapy

July 19, 2017 — The members of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) have elected three new officers to ...

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News | Radiation Therapy

July 19, 2017 — RAD Technology Medical Systems announced their most recent project at Glendale Adventist Medical Center ...

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News | Proton Therapy

July 18, 2017 — IBA (Ion Beam Applications S.A.) and Inova recently signed a contract for a two-room Proteus Plus proton ...

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News | Proton Therapy

July 17, 2017 — Proton International (PI) and Beaumont Health recently opened the state’s first proton therapy center ...

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Technology | Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT)

July 5, 2017 — Varian Medical Systems has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for the ...

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News | Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT)

July 5, 2017 — A new study from Roswell Park Cancer Institute reporting the findings of the first clinical trial to ...

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News | Image Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT)

July 3, 2017 — Accuray Inc. and Montefiore Einstein Center for Cancer Care (MECCC), part of the Montefiore Health System ...

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