May 19, 2014 — NIA Magellan, a subsidiary of Magellan Health Services Inc., recently launched “RadZone Kids,” an easy-to-use community resource to assist parents and caregivers in preparing their children for various diagnostic imaging tests, including CT (computed tomography) scans, MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scans and X-rays.

According to a study presented at the 2014 ARRS Annual Meeting in San Diego, misinformation and misunderstanding about the risks associated with ionizing radiation create heightened public concern and fear, and may result in avoidance of screening mammography that can detect early cancers.

 

May 19, 2014 — A Japanese multi-institutional study1 of 1,194 patients, has found that individuals with five to 10 tumors treated with Gamma Knife stereotactic radiosurgery alone (no whole brain radiation therapy) fared as well as a group with two to four tumors who received this radiosurgery-only treatment. 

Proton therapy is in the proverbial chicken or the egg scenario. Companies are pulling back on reimbursements to treat some cancers — notably prostate, breast and lung — because of the added expense and limited evidence to back it up.

May 16, 2014 — Lexmark’s Perceptive Software announced that its 2014 cycle of testing has been successfully completed. 

Lung 3D from CT scan

May 16, 2014 — The Comprehensive Cancer Center of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center is one of only a handful of cancer centers that is attempting to give lung cancer patients out of treatment options a chance to keep the cancer at bay. Two complementary papers published back-to-back recently in the journal Radiotherapy and Oncology and the Journal of Thoracic Oncology outline the treatment success at Wake Forest Baptist.

May 16, 2014 — Novarad Corp. is introducing and demonstrating NovaGlass at the 2014 annual meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) in Long Beach, Calif.

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