May 27, 2010 - Breast-conserving therapy is a viable treatment option for African-American women, although they tend to ...
Radiation Therapy
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.
May 20, 2010 - Radiation oncologists are increasingly younger practitioners, and there is a larger number of women ...
May 18, 2010 - Proton beam therapy is becoming more accessible in the United States. While proton beam therapy has ...
Elekta’s latest linear accelerator, Harmony, is designed to provide a productive and versatile radiotherapy solution for ...
May 18, 2010 - Prostate cancer is the most common non-skin cancer in America, affecting one in six men. It is estimated ...
May 17, 2010 - The radiation oncology community will discuss steps manufacturers of linear accelerators, radiation ...
May 17, 2010 - The Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine in St ...
Automation is transforming the way we practice radiation oncology and advancing the standard of patient care. There have ...
May 12, 2010 - This year, 35,720 Americans will be diagnosed with head and neck cancer, and 7,600 will die from the ...
May 12, 2010 - There is a growing market for software developers to integrate 3-D radiation therapy software solution ...
May 11, 2010 - Stereotactic radiosurgery using gamma knife is a safe and effective option for selected children with ...
Treating cancer effectively often includes a combination of patient therapies. In recent years, technology advancements ...
Perhaps there is no other area of medicine that requires as much of a team effort to deliver treatment as radiation ...
May 5, 2010 - SenoRx Inc. announced it has entered into a definitive merger agreement with C. R. Bard at a price of $11 ...
April 4, 2010 - Each year, Mayo Clinic neurologists and neurosurgeons care for more than 2,200 patients with brain and ...
The Radiation Oncology department at Missouri’s Mosaic Life Care at St. Joseph treats 50-60 patients per day and ...
April 28, 2010 - Infusing tiny, melanin-covered nanoparticles into patients may protect bone marrow from the harmful ...
April 28, 2010 - New approaches to image-guidance and motion management are making it possible to successfully target ...
April 23, 2010 - Professor Lars Leksell, the inventor of the Gamma Knife, a radiosurgical instrument, performed the ...
April 21, 2010 - A computerized segmentation system can reliably estimate changes in tumor size on computed tomography ...
April 21, 2010 - Tracking tumor motion is one of the biggest challenges in radiation therapy. Gating is of the most ...
April 21, 2010 - A new platform for image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) and radiosurgery designed to treat a moving tumor ...
Cancer doesn’t discriminate by gender, age or where a person resides. But in many cases, the quality of care a patient ...
April 14, 2010 - A diagnostic imaging center expands its services to offer image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) and ...
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