The Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1975–2009, shows that overall cancer death rates continued 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.
January 2, 2013 — Agfa HealthCare demonstrated its new Impax Radiation Exposure Monitoring (REM) solution at the 2012 ...
December 28, 2012 — Elekta announced it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ...
Elekta’s latest linear accelerator, Harmony, is designed to provide a productive and versatile radiotherapy solution for ...
December 28, 2012 — Accuray Inc. announced clinical findings using noninvasive CyberKnife stereotactic body radiation ...
For men undergoing proton therapy for prostate cancer, fewer treatments with higher doses appear to be well tolerated ...
December 21, 2012 — Vacancy rates for radiation therapists declined in 2012, according to the American Society of ...
Automation is transforming the way we practice radiation oncology and advancing the standard of patient care. There have ...
The top step I took to the 2012 RSNA exhibit halls at the McCormick Center in Chicago bore the RSNA theme “Patients ...
At ASTRO 2012, Ray Search Americas demonstrated the latest features for its radiation therapy treatment planning system.
At ASTRO 2012, Mevion featured its compact Mevion S250 Proton Therapy System, which has a footprint comparable to ...
Treating cancer effectively often includes a combination of patient therapies. In recent years, technology advancements ...
The German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) will be at RSNA ’12 to show off the country’s hottest ...
In a comparison of patients with Stage-1 non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) during the period 1999-2008, those in the ...
November 9, 2012 — The team of dosimetrists and physicists at D3 Oncology Solutions (D3), an affiliate of UPMC and UPMC ...
The Radiation Oncology department at Missouri’s Mosaic Life Care at St. Joseph treats 50-60 patients per day and ...
November 8, 2012 — At the 2012 annual meeting of the American Society for Radiology Oncology (ASTRO) in Boston, Siemens ...
November 6, 2012 – GE Healthcare showcased a number of new advanced imaging technologies and software capabilities at ...
November 5, 2012 — Accuray launched its new TomoTherapy H Series, featuring the TomoHDA system, with faster planning ...
November 2, 2012 — Elekta and Philips announced they will expand a joint program to develop an imaging treatment ...
November 2, 2012 — A first-of-its-kind clinical trial conducted at University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center Seidman ...
IBA (Ion Beam Applications S.A.) launched the new Visicoil Twin-Line fiducial marker at the annual meeting of the 2012 ...
October 31, 2012 — Older women with early-stage, low-risk breast cancer who were treated with radiation therapy (RT) ...
October 31, 2012 — Concurrent use of sorafenib and stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) for advanced liver cancer ...
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