June 15, 2007 - Avid Radiopharmaceuticals Inc. announced that a preclinical study presented at at the Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) Annual Meeting was selected as the 2007 Small Animal Image of the Year, showing a Positron Emission Tomography (PET) image of a rat pancreas following injection with AV-133, a molecular imaging agent.

June 15, 2007 - With a technology transfer agreement recently announced, the first compact proton therapy system, one that would fit in any major cancer center and cost a fifth as much as a full-scale machine is nearing reality thanks to scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in a project jointly funded by the Laboratory and UC Davis Cancer Center.

Proton therapy is considered the most advanced form of radiation therapy available, but size and cost have limited the technology’s use to only six cancer centers nationwide.

June 15, 2007 - Cancer patients in Tasmania will have access to state-of-the-art treatments when the state's two oncology centers install the latest in image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) equipment from Varian Medical Systems, as part of a plan to launch IGRT programs early next year.

June 15, 2007 - Dr. K. Wayne Johnston was elected 2007-2008 president of the Society of Vascular Surgery (SVS) during the Vascular Annual Meeting on June 8, 2007, now leading the country's largest vascular surgeon society with 2,400 members.

June 14, 2007 - A new feature on MayoClinic.com now provides context and answers questions about the connection between HRT and breast cancer rates raised by a recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine, which reported a 9 percent drop in breast cancer rates from 2001 to 2004 among women age 50 and older.

June 14, 2007 –A recent cancer survivor has launched the first-ever national cancer guide, Patient Resource, targeting newly diagnosed cancer patients and their families, the 128-page directory is now available in more than 6,000 cancer clinics and doctor’s offices around the country, free of charge.

June 14, 2007 - Co-sponsored by ASCO, the American Society of Breast Disease (ASBD), the American Society of Breast Surgeons, the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO) and the Society of Surgical Oncology (SSO), the 2007 Breast Cancer Symposium will be held Sept. 7-8 in San Francisco. This new educational event is designed to provide oncologists with the most up-to-date relevant information required to treat breast cancer patients. The Symposium also hopes to increase “cross talk” among practitioners and scientists in the breast cancer field.

June 14, 2007 - Susan G. Komen for the Cure, in partnership with the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), will invest $10 million over the next four years to advance the quality of cancer care in the U.S. The two organizations will create programs and provide grants to support tangible improvements in access to and the delivery of cancer care with special emphasis on disparities in care and access to clinical trials.

June 14, 2007 — Mindray Medical International Limited, a leading developer, manufacturer and marketer of medical devices in China with a rapidly growing international presence, announced that it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its BC-3200, an automatic three-part differential hematology analyzer, and Hypervisor VI, a central monitoring system.

June 14, 2007 - GE’s Advantage Workstation (AW) introduces its latest advanced image visualization and analysis tool, AW VolumeShare 2, a platform that delivers 64 bit technology, designed to enable the Advantage Workstation to process large data sets for more accurate diagnosis using thin slice CT data.

The new hardware features two dual core processors to provide an increase in performance. Also, image storage capacity has been doubled.

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