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.

RayCare 5B features full user configurability of all workflow configuration settings, including the possibility to create advanced workflow automation, from the administrator’s workspace.
News | Radiation Oncology
RayCare 5B Provides Cancer Clinics with User Configurable Workflows for Radiation Therapy

December 22, 2021 — RayCare 5B features full user configurability of all workflow configuration settings, including the ...

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Immunolight LLC, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical firm leading the way in advancing technologies to transform cancer treatment, announced today it is now recruiting patients for a phase 1 study of its X-PACT Cancer Treatment system in Breast, Melanoma, Sarcoma and Head and Neck Cancers, to be conducted at Duke University Medical Center.
News | Radiation Oncology
Immunolight, LLC Now Recruiting Patients for Phase 1 Trial of the X-PACT System in Solid Tumors

December 20, 2021 — Immunolight LLC, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical firm leading the way in advancing technologies ...

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A versatile light-sheet microscope developed at the University of Washington can provide surgeons with real-time pathology data to guide cancer-removal surgeries and can also non-destructively examine tumor biopsies in 3-D. Image courtesy of Mark Stone/University of Washington
News | Prostate Cancer
3-D Imaging Method May Help Doctors Better Determine Prostate Cancer Aggressiveness

December 10, 2021 — Prostate cancer is the most common cancer for men and, for men in the United States, it's the second ...

Time December 10, 2021
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Mirion Technologies, Inc., a global provider of detection, measurement, analysis and monitoring solutions to the medical, nuclear, defense, and research end markets, today announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire Computerized Imaging Reference Systems, Inc. (“CIRS”), a leading provider of medical imaging and radiation therapy phantoms serving the medical industry.
News | Radiation Therapy
Mirion Technologies to Acquire Computerized Imaging Reference Systems

December 10, 2021 — Mirion Technologies, Inc., a global provider of detection, measurement, analysis and monitoring ...

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The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) issued the following statement from ASTRO Board of Directors Chair Laura A. Dawson, M.D., FASTRO, in response to today's introduction of the Supporting Health Care Providers During the COVID-19 Pandemic Act in the U.S. House of Representatives.
News | Radiation Oncology
ASTRO Urges Congress to Pass Legislation Delaying RO Model and Protecting Medicare Beneficiaries' Access to Care

December 9, 2021 — The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) issued the following statement from ASTRO Board ...

Time December 09, 2021
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Figure 1. Left image shows breast MRI in 41-year-old patient without IUD. Right image shows increased parenchymal enhancement in the same patient 27 months after IUD placement.
Feature | Radiology Imaging | By Melinda Taschetta-Millane
Top 10: Most Read Radiology Technology Content in November 2021

December 8, 2021 — Here is a list of the Top 10 most read pieces of content on ITNonline.com from the month of November ...

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After the absorption of an X-ray photon, the water molecule can bend up so far that after only about ten femtoseconds (quadrillionths of a second) both hydrogen atoms (grey) are facing each other, with the oxygen atom (red) in the middle. This motion can be studied by absorbing a second X-ray photon. Credit: DESY, Ludger Inhester
News | Molecular Imaging
X-ray Laser Reveals How Radiation Damage Arises

December 7, 2021 — An international research team has used the X-ray laser European XFEL to gain new insights into how ...

Time December 07, 2021
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RefleXion Medical Inc., a therapeutic oncology company, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted the company Breakthrough Device Designation for its biology-guided radiotherapy (BgRT) for use in treating lung tumors.
News | Radiation Therapy
RefleXion Receives Breakthrough Device Designation for Lung Cancer Treatment

December 6, 2021 — RefleXion Medical Inc., a therapeutic oncology company, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug ...

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CIRS specializes in the design, development and commercialization of tissue equivalent medical imaging and radiation therapy phantoms for the radiotherapy and radio-diagnostic markets.
News | Nuclear Imaging
Mirion Technologies Completes Acquisition of Computerized Imaging Reference Systems, Inc.

December 3, 2021 — Mirion Technologies, Inc., a global provider of detection, measurement, analysis and monitoring ...

Time December 03, 2021
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Figure 1. Proportion of U.S. states offering equivalent early prioritization for COVID vaccination for patients with cancer and patients over the age of 65 as recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Cancer Patients Overlooked in COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout

December 2, 2021 — Almost two-thirds of U.S. states failed to prioritize cancer patients for COVID-19 vaccinations ...

Time December 02, 2021
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Videos | Radiation Therapy
VIDEO: Sedating Children With Movies Rather Than Drugs for Radiation Therapy

Jeffrey T. Chapman, a medical student at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Explains how watching ...

Time November 24, 2021
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IBA, a leader in particle accelerator technology, and NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes LLC, a global innovator in the development, production and commercialization of radiopharmaceuticals used for therapeutic applications and medical imaging, today announced a new contract in which NorthStar will purchase a third Rhodotron TT300 HE electron beam accelerator from IBA.
News | Nuclear Imaging
IBA and NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes Sign Contract for Rhodotron Electron Beam Accelerator for Commercial Production of Therapeutic Radioisotope Actinium-225 (Ac-225)

November 22, 2021 — IBA, a leader in particle accelerator technology, and NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes LLC, a global ...

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Lung cancer screening is recommended only for those who are at high risk for the disease — adults ages 50–80 who smoke at least 20 packs a year—but even among members of that high-risk group, screening rates remain low, ranging from 5% to 20% of those eligible for the screening CT scan.
News | Lung Imaging
Lung Cancer Screening Rates Increase With Access to Medicare

November 19, 2021 — Lung cancer screening is recommended only for those who are at high risk for the disease — adults ...

Time November 19, 2021
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The CE-IVD marked Aiforia Clinical AI Model for Lung Cancer; PD-L1 is intended for use by pathologists in supporting them to detect and calculate the levels of the biomarker in non-small cell lung cancer cases.
News | Artificial Intelligence
Aiforia Achieves CE-IVD Mark for Clinical PD-L1 AI Model in Lung Cancer Diagnostics

November 18, 2021 — Worldwide the most common cause of cancer mortality in 2020 was lung cancer, with an estimated 1.80 ...

Time November 18, 2021
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Videos | Radiopharmaceuticals and Tracers
VIDEO: Advances in Radiopharmaceutical Therapy

Ana Kiess, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of radiation oncology and molecular radiation sciences, Johns Hopkins ...

Time November 17, 2021
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Videos | Radiation Therapy
VIDEO: Elekta Harmony Radiotherapy System Walk-around

The Elekta Harmony radiotherapy system gained FDA clearance in the summer of 2021 and was on display for the first time ...

Time November 17, 2021
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Radiation can be a powerful cancer therapy, but it doesn’t work for everyone. A new study identifies tumor features linked with resistance to radiotherapy, an important advance toward developing individualized cancer treatments.
News | Radiation Therapy
Study Identifies Cancer Features That Could Guide Personalized Radiotherapy

November 17, 2021 — Radiation can be a powerful cancer therapy, but it doesn’t work for everyone. A new study identifies ...

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Videos | Radiation Oncology
VIDEO: Example of an Ion Beam Radiotherapy Treatment System

This is a model of the Toshiba ion beam radiation therapy system at the American Society of Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) ...

Time November 16, 2021
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Patients with two out of the three most common types of advanced breast cancer now have an average survival time of at least five years, according to a panel of experts at the Advanced Breast Cancer Sixth International Consensus Conference (ABC 6)
News | Breast Imaging
Average Survival Time Has Doubled for Patients With Two Out of Three Types of Advanced Breast Cancer in the Past Decade

November 16, 2021 — Patients with two out of the three most common types of advanced breast cancer now have an average ...

Time November 16, 2021
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A new Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute study of nearly 800,000 men found that between 2011 and 2017 black patients were 24% less likely than white patients to have a prostate MRI after receiving an elevated (prostate-specific antigen) PSA score
News | Prostate Cancer
Black Patients 24% Less Likely than White Patients to Have a Prostate MRI After Receiving an Elevated PSA Score

November 16, 2021 — A new Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute study of nearly 800,000 men found that between 2011 ...

Time November 16, 2021
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