January 22, 2010 - The quality of radiotherapy treatment across Australasia just got a boost. A team of radiation oncologists, radiation therapists, and medical physicists have signed a contract with a radiotherapy system manufacturer to provide other radiation oncology departments with training.


The debate over healthcare reform has raised many issues as to why costs have risen so much in recent years. During the debates, comments have been made that device manufacturers are a big factor in driving up costs.

January 21, 2010 - Staging the cancer, whether it has metastasized to the lymph nodes, is an important prognostic indicator that determines the course of therapy. A widely accepted technique used during surgery to stage breast, melanoma, and other cancers involves the injection of a radiopharmaceutical near the tumor, which results in its accumulation in the local lymph nodes.

January 21, 2010 - More than 60 percent of U.S. breast imaging facilities offer digital mammography and more are acquiring digital services each month, and a new study may drive the adoption of digital mammography even further.

January 20, 2010 - Advanced breast imaging capabilities added elastography to the list, fused MR/CT image data combined with angiography navigation systems to guide percutaneous oncology, and 3.0 Tesla MR debut at the 2009 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

January 20, 2010 - Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer in women worldwide. Treatments for the disease have changed markedly over the last decade as a result of guidelines issued by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in 1999, which stated that chemoradiotherapy should be considered as an alternative to radiotherapy.

January 20, 2010 - First Coast Oncology in Jacksonville, Fla., employs a technique for whole breast irradiation that is designed to target and deliver a boost dose accurately and reliably to the lumpectomy cavity margin.

January 20, 2010 - Fairfield Memorial Hospital and Piedmont Family Practice at York, a clinic, are the latest facilities in South Carolina to install a new PACS for its rural facilities in the region.

Janaury 20, 2010 - The Democrats were going to need all 60 votes from its caucus in the Senate for the reconciled healthcare reform bill to pass, but the election of Republican Scott Brown to fill the seat of the late Edward Kennedy (D-MA) has, according to the American College of Radiology (ACR), "complicated the next steps in the process to enact healthcare reform."

January 20, 2010 - Doppler ultrasound is a well established technique used to diagnose problems during pregnancy, and it may prove especially useful in high-risk pregnancies to monitor a fetus' health may reduce caesarean sections and the number of babies who die, according to a new Cochrane Systematic Review.

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