Now, for the first time, UCLA researchers have described cost across an entire care process for low-risk prostate cancer – from the time a patient checks in for his first appointment to his post-treatment follow-up testing - using time-driven activity-based costing.

RaySearch Laboratories AB (publ) announced today that The US Oncology Network, one of America’s largest networks of integrated, community-based oncology practices dedicated to advancing high-quality, evidence-based cancer care, has selected RayStation to be offered throughout The US Oncology Network as one of the available radiation therapy treatment planning systems.

IBA (Ion Beam Applications S.A.) announced that the newly opened Texas Center for Proton Therapy is now treating cancer patients, using image-guided Pencil Beam Scanning (PBS).

In a paper published in the journal Nature Communications, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine researchers identified a pathway that causes the resistance and a new therapeutic drug that targets this pathway.

Low-risk prostate cancer patients in Canada may be opting for treatment with major life-changing side-effects without fully understanding other options, including the choice to forego treatment unless the disease progresses, a new report reveals.

During the eighties and nineties — the heydays of radiology — sexism abounded on the RSNA exhibit floor. Gone today are the women who were stationed strategically along the periphery of vendor booths, hired from Chicago modeling agencies, instructed to reel in the heavily male prospects then hand them off to sales people. Gone also are the spandex-clad models who once adorned the X-ray and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) tables. The women in mammography videos are older than 22.

 Mach7 Technologies will debut Mach7 11.7 at the 101st gathering of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), Nov. 29-Dec. 4, in Chicago.

Visaris Americas announced it has received 510(k) U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance on its digital radiography (DR) software, flat-panel detectors and various hardware offerings.

Imaging informatics company HealthMyne announced a major advance in their quantitative imaging analytics platform. Working together with Epic and University of Wisconsin (UW) Health, HealthMyne now offers radiologists a unification of electronic health record (EHR) data and imaging information.

Carestream Health’s new DRX Plus 3543 and DRX Plus 3543C detectors are now shipping to healthcare providers in countries across the globe.

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