Aug. 2, 2011 — Accuray Inc. announced it will showcase the CyberKnife robotic radiosurgery system and the TomoTherapy radiation therapy treatment system at the 2011 Joint American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)/Canadian Organization of Medical Physicists (COMP) meeting. The company will also host a joint symposium examining best practices for quality assurance (QA) in radiation oncology. The 2011 Joint AAPM/COMP meeting takes place July 31-Aug. 4, 2011 in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Aug. 2, 2011 — Civco announced the signing of a reseller agreement that would allow Varian Medical Systems to offer Civco's Body Pro-Lok to its customers. Introduced in 2008 and installed at more than 150 community and academic facilities worldwide, Body Pro-Lok acts as a modular base for indexable patient positioning, secure immobilization and efficient patient transport.

Aug. 1, 2011 – Siemens will publicly introduce three new additions to its radiation oncology product portfolio at the 2011 annual meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)/Canadian Organization of Medical Physicists (COMP). The event will be held July 31-Aug. 3 at the Vancouver Convention Centre.

July 29, 2011 – Varian Medical Systems' next release of the Aria oncology information system, newly designed for greater ease of use, will be among the highlights of the company’s exhibit at the 2011 joint meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) and the Canadian Organization of Medical Physicists (COMP) here later this week. Varian will also demonstrate SmartConnect for TrueBeam, a utility that enables secure remote servicing of a TrueBeam cancer treatment machine. Varian personnel in the exhibit hall will use SmartConnect to monitor and evaluate a TrueBeam cancer treatment system 1300 miles away in Las Vegas, N.V.

July 29, 2011 – Lynn Cancer Institute at Boca Raton Regional Hospital has established itself as a premier Protura user. Medical Director Tim Williams, M.D., and his team have treated more than 100 patients using Protura, and the team is presenting a poster titled "Clinical Efficacy of Using KV -- CBCT Imaging Guided 6-D Robotic Couch in Lung SBRT [stereotactic body radiotherapy]" at the 2011 AAPM conference.

July 29, 2011 – The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has announced that it has produced guidance to support the routine use of selective internal radiation therapy (SIRT) for the treatment of patients with liver tumors resulting from colorectal cancer. This welcome decision culminates an extensive dialogue between patients, patient groups, clinical experts and parliamentarians.

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