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.

Videos | Artificial Intelligence

A discussion with Steve Jiang, Ph.D., director of the medical artificial intelligence and automation lab and vice-chair ...

Time August 01, 2018
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Videos | Radiation Therapy

This is an example of how Cherenkov radiation glow can be collected with image intensifier cameras during radiotherapy ...

Time August 01, 2018
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Videos | AAPM

American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) President Bruce Thomadsen, M.D., professor of medical physics at ...

Time August 01, 2018
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Feature | Proton Therapy | By Jeff Zagoudis

The Alliance for Proton Therapy Access (APTA) released a national report in late May revealing the heavy emotional and ...

Time July 03, 2018
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Feature | Radiation Therapy | By Melinda Taschetta-Millane

Treatment planning systems are at the heart of radiation therapy (RT) systems and the key to improved patient outcomes ...

Time June 05, 2018
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News | Lung Imaging

For smokers and former smokers, the threat of lung cancer always lurks in the shadows. To flush it out of the darkness ...

Time June 04, 2018
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Feature | Computed Tomography (CT) | By Jeff Zagoudis

Computed tomography (CT) has long been the standard of care for imaging to plan radiation therapy (RT) treatments. CT ...

Time May 03, 2018
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Feature | Proton Therapy | By Jeff Zagoudis

Proton therapy has experienced major growth in the last decade, but that growth seems to have slowed slightly in recent ...

Time March 06, 2018
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News | Radiation Oncology

World Cancer Day takes place annually on Feb. 4 to raise awareness and education in the media, governments and people ...

Time February 01, 2018
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Feature | Radiation Oncology | By Emily Clemons

Technological and scientific advances in radiation oncology are allowing practitioners to put patients first in profound ...

Time January 31, 2018
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Videos | Radiation Therapy

Chris Toth, president, global commercial and field operations for Varian, takes a tour of Varian’s new product ...

Time November 15, 2017
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Sponsored Content | Case Study | Radiation Oncology

In establishing the new Southeast Cancer Center (Cape Girardeau, Mo.), clinic officials not only had the opportunity to ...

Time November 06, 2017
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Feature | Proton Therapy | By Larisa Brass, MPH

Thirty-three. Twenty-nine. Sixty-four. These are the ages of the breast cancer patients who have walked through the ...

Time November 06, 2017
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Videos | Women's Health

William Hall, M.D., radiation oncologist in the Department of Radiation Oncology at PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical ...

Time October 23, 2017
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Feature | Contrast Media | By Dave Fornell

Over the past decade, several clinical studies have shown gadolinium-based magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast ...

Time October 04, 2017
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Feature | Oncology Information Management Systems (OIMS) | By Jeff Zagoudis

Cancer is perhaps the most highly personal, complex disease in our world today. While the various types of cancer are ...

Time September 08, 2017
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News | Radiation Therapy

Each year, up to 650,000 people who were previously diagnosed with various forms of cancer will develop brain metastases ...

Time July 31, 2017
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Feature | Radiation Oncology | By Jeff Zagoudis

Image-guided radiation therapy offers great potential to improve the efficiency of treating cancer patients by more ...

Time July 05, 2017
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Feature | Treatment Planning | By Jeff Zagoudis

While radiation oncologists have a number of proven techniques at their disposal for treating patients, the reality is ...

Time July 05, 2017
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News | Prostate Cancer

In the battle against metastatic prostate cancer, the removal of lymph node metastases using image-guided surgery may ...

Time June 15, 2017
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