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. 

Technology | Treatment Planning

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

Time August 15, 2017
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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 ...

Time August 07, 2017
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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 ...

Time July 31, 2017
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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 ...

Time July 25, 2017
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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 ...

Time July 24, 2017
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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 ...

Time July 21, 2017
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News | Treatment Planning

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

Time July 21, 2017
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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 ...

Time July 19, 2017
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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 ...

Time July 05, 2017
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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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News | Radiation Therapy

July 3, 2017 — IBA and Philips announced in mid-June they are stepping up their combined effort for proton therapy in ...

Time July 03, 2017
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News | Radiation Therapy

July 3, 2017 — The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) announced the 2017 ASTRO Gold Medalists. Søren M ...

Time July 03, 2017
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News | Radiation Therapy

June 29, 2017 — Due to its widespread success in treating several types of brain cancer, global market growth for Gamma ...

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News | Patient Positioning Radiation Therapy

June 28, 2017 — Augmenix Inc. announced that the first patient in New Zealand has been treated with SpaceOAR hydrogel at ...

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Feature | Lung Imaging

June 23, 2017 — The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) recently issued a new clinical guideline for the use ...

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