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 therapybrachytherapyimage guided radiation therapy (IGRT)focused ultrasoundstereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT), intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), treatment planning systems and tomotherapy.

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January 20, 2015 — American Shared Hospital Services (AMS) announced that physicians have begun treating patients with ...

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January 19, 2015 — Women who have breast cancer on their left side present a particular challenge to radiation ...

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January 16, 2015 — A 76-year-old man with prostate cancer has become the first radiotherapy patient in the world whose ...

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January 16, 2015 — New technology installed at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) Hollings Cancer Center’s ...

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January 14, 2015 — Locally advanced rectal cancer patients who receive preoperative radiation therapy with either ...

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January 13, 2015 — For lung cancer that cannot be removed with surgery, radiotherapy is the primary treatment option ...

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January 13, 2015 — A new novel imaging technique measurably improves upon current prostate imaging and may have ...

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January 13, 2015 — A 2013 survey of radiation oncologists indicates that they would like more formal recommendations and ...

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January 6, 2015 — For two years now, Proton Therapy Center Czech (PTC) in Prague has been among the world’s top proton ...

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January 12, 2015 — Elekta's Versa HD system is making its clinical debut or preparing to treat patients at three ...

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January 12, 2015 — Adding radiation treatment to hormone therapy saves more lives among older men with locally advanced ...

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January 9, 2015 — Blackford Analysis announced that its software has been successfully integrated into a tool developed ...

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January 8, 2015 — RaySearch Laboratories AB (publ.) has entered into a long-term distribution agreement with Kamol ...

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January 8, 2015 — EDAP TMS SA received a letter from the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) of the Food ...

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January 6, 2015 — Two-thirds of women treated for early-stage breast cancer in the United States receive longer ...

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January 5, 2015 — Zelina Amir was the 1,000th patient to complete treatment at the ProCure Proton Therapy Center in ...

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January 2, 2015 — A clinical trial that combined stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) with a specific chemotherapy ...

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December 31, 2014 — A new analysis has found that while clinical trial data support omitting radiation treatments in ...

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December 31, 2014 — A University of Colorado Cancer Center study published in the journal Stem Cells shows that one way ...

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