At the 2014 annual meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO), Sept. 14-17 at San Francisco’s Moscone Center, Siemens Healthcare demonstrated how it innovates to advance the practice of radiation therapy (RT) for the benefit of patients by providing systems and solutions that enable optimal imaging, which can support radiation therapy (RT) treatment and follow-up. 

IBA and Philips Healthcare announced the signing of a global collaboration to provide advanced diagnostic and therapeutic solutions for the treatment of cancer.

Cianna Medical Inc. announced five-year results for the first 200 hundred patients treated with the SAVI breast brachytherapy applicator, including excellent local control, low rates of toxicities and excellent cosmetic results.

September 16, 2014 — CivaTech Oncology announced it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance on its bioabsorbable planar radiation device. The implantable CivaSheet low-dose-rate (LDR) Palladium source is the only membrane-like brachytherapy device that is truly customizable to a specific patient’s condition and offers a unidirectional option to shield healthy tissue.

September 16, 2014 — Advanced Accelerator Applications (AAA), an international specialist in molecular nuclear medicine, announced this week it has entered into an agreement with GE Healthcare in Italy to acquire its Italian FDG-PET imaging agent business (fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography). This acquisition includes the license to market GE Healthcare’s SteriPET (FDG) imaging agent in Italy.

September 16, 2014 — A large, international analysis of patients with stage IV non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) indicates that a patient’s overall survival (OS) rate can be related to factors including the timing of when metastases develop and lymph node involvement, and that aggressive treatment for “low-risk” patients leads to a five-year OS rate of 47.8 percent. The research was presented today at the 56th annual meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO).

Patients with inoperable, early-stage lung cancer who receive stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) have a five-year survival rate of 40 percent, according to research presented at the American Society for Radiation Oncology’s (ASTRO’s) 56th Annual Meeting. 

A prospective clinical study that compared patient-reported outcomes of a broad set of cancer patients with bone metastases demonstrates that single fraction radiation therapy (SFRT) is equally as effective as multiple fraction radiation therapy (MFRT) when pain, function and quality of life are considered, according to research presented at the American Society for Radiation Oncology’s (ASTRO’s) 56th Annual Meeting.
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