Breast cancer rates in the United States dropped dramatically in 2003, and experts attribute the sudden decline to the ...
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.
GE Healthcare today released the results of Omega Management Group’s 3rd quarter survey of GE customers - a survey ...
Trust for America's Health (TFAH) today released the fourth annual "Ready or Not? Protecting the Public's Health from ...
Elekta’s latest linear accelerator, Harmony, is designed to provide a productive and versatile radiotherapy solution for ...
For the first time, the National Comprehensive Cancer Network has included hyperthermia therapy and radiation as ...
Doctors have long encouraged older men with early-stage, low-risk prostate cancer to skip treatment until tests showed ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety (Solutions), the World Alliance for Patient ...
Automation is transforming the way we practice radiation oncology and advancing the standard of patient care. There have ...
The University of Maryland's Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center is among the first cancer centers in the ...
Siemens Medical Solutions has introduced the Axiom Luminos dRF, a new remote fluoroscopy system with flat detector ...
University of Pennsylvania alumni Ralph J. Roberts and his son Brian L. Roberts have pledged $15 million to help create ...
Treating cancer effectively often includes a combination of patient therapies. In recent years, technology advancements ...
Varian Medical Systems’ exhibit at the 2006 ASTRO meeting focused on the clinical deployment of the company’s technology ...
The Leksell Gamma Knife Perfexion provides a radiosurgical platform for refinement and expansion of procedures in the ...
Researchers who thought they had identified the bacterial perpetrator of the often severe disease caused by community ...
Transitioning to a new device vendor can provide improvements to outdated technology and workflow. It also requires a ...
Varian Medical Systems announced at ASTRO that it has added new motion management capabilities to the Eclipse ...
Calypso Medical Technologies, Inc. officially launched its recently FDA 510(k) cleared Calypso 4D Localization System at ...
Optio Healthcare today announced that Smith Northview Hospital, a 31-bed facility in rural Georgia, has selected Optio's ...
Philips announced today at ASTRO the introduction of Panorama 1.0T R/T, a high field open MR simulator, and Tumor ...
ECRI (www.ecri.org), an independent, nonprofit health services research agency, recently published an evaluation of six ...
TomoTherapy announced today that it has installed its 100th Hi-Art System in Stratton VA Medical Center, as part of ...
Neurosurgeons and radiation oncologists at a leading cancer hospital in Taiwan are utilizing Varian’s linear accelerator ...
TeraMedica Healthcare Technology announced today that the University of California-Davis Cancer Center in Sacramento ...
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