November 18, 2020 — Radiation oncologists across the country will meet virtually with members of Congress this week to urge lawmakers to pass legislation that will safeguard access to high-quality, value-based health care for...
Radiation Oncology
Radiation oncology is a medical specialty that uses radiation therapy to treat cancer. The radiation therapy channel covers all aspects of radiation oncology technology. Radiation therapy includes linear accelerators (LINAC), proton therapy, brachytherapy, image guided radiation therapy (IGRT), focused ultrasound, stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT), intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), treatment planning systems and tomotherapy.
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Bruce Bauer, Ph.D., CEO of TAE Life Sciences.
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October 24, 2020 — The American Society of Radiation Oncology's (ASTRO) 62nd Annual Meeting launched its Exhibit Hall Only Day yesterday, a new event one day before programming begins, to...
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October 22, 2020 — In response to the Oct.
News | PET Imaging | November 25, 2020
November 25, 2020 — Blue Earth Diagnostics, a leading molecular imaging diagnostics company, today announced that their...
News | Computed Tomography (CT) | November 25, 2020
November 25, 2020 — GE Healthcare today announced its acquisition of Prismatic Sensors AB, a Swedish start-up...
News | Prostate Cancer | November 19, 2020
November 19, 2020 — MIM Software Inc. announced a collaboration with Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre (Peter Mac) in...
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Blog | Contrast Media | October 20, 2020
Transitioning to a new device vendor can provide improvements to outdated technology and workflow. It also requires a...
News | Enterprise Imaging | November 19, 2020
November 19, 2020 — Infinitt North America, a single-source provider of enterprise imaging solutions for healthcare,...
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News | Prostate Cancer | November 18, 2020
November 18, 2020 — Can early-stage prostate cancer "vanish" during follow-up? More likely the cancer is just "hidden...
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News | Radiation Oncology | November 18, 2020
November 18, 2020 — Radiation oncologists across the country will meet virtually with members of Congress this week to...
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Power injectors can improve efficiency and patient safety, for example, ensuring that contrast agent is not wasted due to the lack of a saline bolus. Image courtesy of Lior Molvin
Blog | Contrast Media | July 31, 2019
Patient safety and operational efficiency are behind the development of modern contrast media, selection and...
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News | Radiology Imaging | November 16, 2020
November 16, 2020 — Early and repeated exposures to diagnostic imaging, such as X-rays and computed tomography (CT)...
Videos | Radiation Therapy | November 15, 2020
Bruce Bauer, Ph.D., CEO of TAE Life Sciences. The company is developing boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) as a new...
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News | Radiation Oncology | November 10, 2020
November 10, 2020 — People whose treatment for cancer is delayed by even one month have in many cases a 6 to 13% higher...
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News | Prostate Cancer | November 04, 2020
November 4, 2020 — Previous studies have shown that African American men are 2.4 times as likely to die from prostate...
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News | Prostate Cancer | November 02, 2020
November 2, 2020 — An analysis of the phase III NRG Oncology clinical trial RTOG 9601 on men receiving salvage...
Watch-and-Wait Compared to Operation for Patients with Complete Response to Neoadjuvant Therapy for Rectal Cancer. Image courtesy of the American College of Surgeons
News | Radiation Therapy | November 02, 2020
November 2, 2020 — A nonsurgical treatment option for rectal cancer that preserves quality of life is safe for...
Conceptual diagram of bio-organizational crushing technology based on high-intensity concentric ultrasonography. Image courtesy of Korea Institue of Science and Technology(KIST)
News | Ultrasound Imaging | November 02, 2020
November 2, 2020 — Focusing ultrasound energy on a target site in the body to generate heat can burn and destroy the...
News | Radiation Oncology | November 02, 2020
Effectiveness of Gemcitabine and Daily RT for Bladder Preservation in Muscle-invasive Bladder Cancer
November 2, 2020 — Bladder preservation with trimodality therapy can be a safe and effective alternative to cystectomy...
News | Prostate Cancer | October 30, 2020
October 30, 2020 — Researchers involved in the phase II NRG Oncology RTOG 0526 trial studying low dose rate (LDR)...
José Obeso, MD, PhD, (left) of of the Centro Integral de Neurociencias (HM CINAC) in Madrid and Nir Lipsman, MD, PhD, (right) of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto. Each doctor is leading a clinical trial using focused ultrasound to target the striatum in patients with Parkinson's disease.
News | Focused Ultrasound Therapy | October 30, 2020
October 30, 2020 — A team of researchers in Madrid, Spain, and another team in Toronto, Canada, are the first in the...
News | Treatment Planning | October 29, 2020
October 29, 2020 — Accuray Incorporated, a pioneer in the robotic stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) field announced a...
Vinai Gondi, M.D., director of research at the Northwestern Medicine Chicago Proton Center, co-director of the Brain Tumor Center at Northwestern Medicine Cancer Center, Warrenville, and lead author of the NRG-BN001 abstract.
News | Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) | October 27, 2020
October 27, 2020 — A preliminary analysis of photon therapy treatment group 1 from the phase II NRG Oncology clinical...
News | Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT) | October 26, 2020
October 26, 2020 — Results of a new randomized phase III trial suggest that stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) should...
News | Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT) | October 26, 2020
October 26, 2020 — A new study, conducted across 13 medical centers in Australia and New Zealand, strengthens the case...
