November 4, 2019 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Clariscan, a macrocyclic, ionic, gadolinium ...
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.
Below are photos from the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) 2019 meeting September 2019 in Chicago. The ...
October 23, 2019 — At the 2019 American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) annual meeting, Sept. 15-18 in Chicago ...
Elekta’s latest linear accelerator, Harmony, is designed to provide a productive and versatile radiotherapy solution for ...
October 22, 2019 — The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) and the American College of Radiology (ACR) ...
David Sjostrom, Ph.D., deputy chief physicist, Herlev Hospital, Department of Oncology, Division of Radiotherapy, Herlev ...
October 18, 2019 — The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Varian announced a new strategic collaboration ...
Automation is transforming the way we practice radiation oncology and advancing the standard of patient care. There have ...
Lorraine Drapek, DNP, nurse practitioner, radiation oncology, GI service, Massachusetts General Hospital, explains the ...
Kristin Higgins, M.D., medical director of radiation oncology, Emory Clinic at the Winship Cancer Institute, explains ...
October 8, 2019 — ViewRay Inc. announced today that patient treatments are scheduled to begin in Boston with ViewRay's ...
Treating cancer effectively often includes a combination of patient therapies. In recent years, technology advancements ...
Bill Hartsell, M.D., medical director of the Northwestern Medicine Proton Center in Warrenville, Ill., discusses the ...
Hypofractionated and ultrahypofractionated radiation therapy — increasing dose per fraction to enable significantly ...
Candice Johnstone, M.D., MPH, Medical College of Wisconsin explains the need for palliative radiotherapy and patient ...
The Radiation Oncology department at Missouri’s Mosaic Life Care at St. Joseph treats 50-60 patients per day and ...
September 26, 2019 — For the first time, a sophisticated computer model has been shown to accurately predict two of the ...
Clifford Robinson, M.D., associate professor of radiation oncology, chief of the SBRT (stereotactic body radiation ...
September 25, 2019 —Whole breast radiation and partial breast radiation following a lumpectomy yield similar cosmetic ...
September 24, 2019 — Patients with brain metastases who received whole-brain radiotherapy that avoided memory-specific ...
August 29, 2019 — The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) announced the top-rated studies being highlighted ...
September 23, 2019 — A randomized clinical trial of targeted, high-dose radiation for men with oligometastatic prostate ...
September 23, 2019 — The first-ever patient radiation therapy treatments generated with machine learning in the ...
Anne Hubbard, MBA, director of health policy for ASTRO, explains the details and purpose of the proposed Radiation ...
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