July 7, 2015 - The Texas Center for Proton Therapy announced it has selected RayStation from RaySearch Laboratories as ...
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.
July 6, 2015 - The Dr. Samadi Prostate Cancer Center in New York City is now offering a full suite of new genetic ...
Image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) affords greater accuracy of dose distribution during cancer treatment, allowing ...
Elekta’s latest linear accelerator, Harmony, is designed to provide a productive and versatile radiotherapy solution for ...
July 1, 2015 - Significant strides have been made in improving the survival of adult patients with low-grade gliomas ...
June 30, 2015 - A three-year-old baby girl with a brain tumor has become the 10,000th patient at Yashoda Hospital in ...
There has been growing discussion and excitement surrounding the possibility of personalized medicine and targeted ...
Automation is transforming the way we practice radiation oncology and advancing the standard of patient care. There have ...
June 2, 2015 — Researchers funded by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) have ...
May 6, 2015 — Leksell Radiosurgery Award winner Deborah C. Marshall presented her research, “Survival Patterns of ...
Proton therapy has been on the rise in recent years, both in the United States and abroad, with more and more proton ...
Treating cancer effectively often includes a combination of patient therapies. In recent years, technology advancements ...
Erlanger Health System in Chattanooga, Tennessee, purchased a CyberKnife Robotic Radiosurgery System in December 2010 to ...
As radiation therapy becomes more sophisticated and new methods are devised for treating cancer, treatment planning ...
March 25, 2015 — Prostate cancer patients with detectable prostate specific antigen (PSA) following radical ...
Transitioning to a new device vendor can provide improvements to outdated technology and workflow. It also requires a ...
March 25, 2015 — A group of molecules in prostate-cancer cells could one day be used to distinguish which patients with ...
March 24, 2015 — Ion Beam Applications S.A. (IBA) announced the successful expansion of IBA Academy on the Road “Small ...
The sixth Image Wisely Radiation Safety Case —Optimizing Radiation Use During a Difficult IVC Filter Retrieval — is now ...
March 10, 2015 — Using a mouse model of cancer, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis ...
March 10, 2015 — New clinical-trial findings provide further evidence that combining chemotherapy with radiation therapy ...
Radiologists play a key role in the cancer care continuum after the initial diagnosis of prostate cancer. This includes ...
November 24, 2014 – Lung cancer patients with minimally invasive adenocarcinoma (MIA) have similar, positive five-year ...
Despite significant advances in imaging and therapy, cancer continues to be a leading health concern worldwide. One type ...
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