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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The World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety (Solutions), the World Alliance for Patient ...

Time December 06, 2006
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The University of Maryland's Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center is among the first cancer centers in the ...

Time December 06, 2006
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Siemens Medical Solutions has introduced the Axiom Luminos dRF, a new remote fluoroscopy system with flat detector ...

Time December 06, 2006
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University of Pennsylvania alumni Ralph J. Roberts and his son Brian L. Roberts have pledged $15 million to help create ...

Time December 05, 2006
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Varian Medical Systems’ exhibit at the 2006 ASTRO meeting focused on the clinical deployment of the company’s technology ...

Time December 03, 2006
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The Leksell Gamma Knife Perfexion provides a radiosurgical platform for refinement and expansion of procedures in the ...

Time December 03, 2006
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Researchers who thought they had identified the bacterial perpetrator of the often severe disease caused by community ...

Time November 06, 2006
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Varian Medical Systems announced at ASTRO that it has added new motion management capabilities to the Eclipse ...

Time November 06, 2006
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Calypso Medical Technologies, Inc. officially launched its recently FDA 510(k) cleared Calypso 4D Localization System at ...

Time November 06, 2006
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Optio Healthcare today announced that Smith Northview Hospital, a 31-bed facility in rural Georgia, has selected Optio's ...

Time November 06, 2006
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Philips announced today at ASTRO the introduction of Panorama 1.0T R/T, a high field open MR simulator, and Tumor ...

Time November 05, 2006
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ECRI (www.ecri.org), an independent, nonprofit health services research agency, recently published an evaluation of six ...

Time October 31, 2006
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TomoTherapy announced today that it has installed its 100th Hi-Art System in Stratton VA Medical Center, as part of ...

Time October 30, 2006
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Neurosurgeons and radiation oncologists at a leading cancer hospital in Taiwan are utilizing Varian’s linear accelerator ...

Time October 29, 2006
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TeraMedica Healthcare Technology announced today that the University of California-Davis Cancer Center in Sacramento ...

Time October 25, 2006
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Initia’s RT announced today that it will introduce at the upcoming ASTRO TrackBeam, a new device that uses collimator- ...

Time October 25, 2006
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Healthcare employers facing aggressive organizing scored a victory last week with a federal labor ruling that blocks ...

Time October 22, 2006
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Viking Systems Inc., a designer, manufacturer and marketer of 3-D and 2-D vision systems for use in minimally invasive ...

Time October 22, 2006
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Varian Medical Systems has announced that the company's On-Board Imager (OBI) device for image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT ...

Time October 22, 2006
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Getting patients to take their medications as directed can cut health-care costs, but improving their pill-taking habits ...

Time October 22, 2006
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