Clinical Trials

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Radiation can be a powerful cancer therapy, but it doesn’t work for everyone. A new study identifies tumor features linked with resistance to radiotherapy, an important advance toward developing individualized cancer treatments.

Study Identifies Cancer Features That Could Guide Personalized Radiotherapy

November 17, 2021 — Radiation can be a powerful cancer therapy, but it doesn’t work for everyone. A new study identifies ...

November 17, 2021

A new Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute study of nearly 800,000 men found that between 2011 and 2017 black patients were 24% less likely than white patients to have a prostate MRI after receiving an elevated (prostate-specific antigen) PSA score

News | Prostate Cancer

Black Patients 24% Less Likely than White Patients to Have a Prostate MRI After Receiving an Elevated PSA Score

November 16, 2021 — A new Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute study of nearly 800,000 men found that between 2011 ...

November 16, 2021

Breast density scale showing the varying degrees of breast density.

Feature | Breast Density | By Robert L. Bard, M.D. DABR, FASL and Noelle Cutter, Ph.D.

Dense Breast Imaging Detection and Image-guided Oncologic Treatment

Prologue In 2014, Imaging Technology News (ITN) introduced breast cancer survivor-turned-crusader Nancy Cappello, Ph.D ...

November 09, 2021

Scientists from UCL and the European Synchrotron Research Facility (ESRF) used a new revolutionary imaging technology called Hierarchical Phase-Contrast Tomography (HiP-CT), to scan donated human organs, including lungs from a Covid-19 donor.

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Brightest Ever X-ray Shows Lung Vessels Altered by COVID-19

November 5, 2021 — The damage caused by Covid-19 to the lungs’ smallest blood vessels has been intricately captured ...

November 05, 2021

FLASH therapy, powered by the use of Varian’s ProBeam, is an experimental treatment modality delivering radiation therapy at ultra-high dose rates, in typically less than one second.

News | Proton Therapy

Varian and the Cincinnati Children's/UC Health Proton Therapy Center Complete Enrollment of FAST-01

November 2, 2021 — Varian, a Siemens Healthineers company, and the Cincinnati Children's/UC Health Proton Therapy Center ...

November 02, 2021

Koning begins an FDA screening trial this month for their no-compression, Isotropic, 3-dimensional breast imaging device. The company received FDA PMA approval for commercial, diagnostic use in 2017

News | Breast Imaging

Koning Begins FDA Clinical Screening Trial in Daytona Beach

November 1, 2021 — Koning begins an FDA screening trial this month for their no-compression, Isotropic, 3-dimensional ...

November 01, 2021

In a phase 2 single-institution study, UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers found that dose-equivalent preoperative radiation therapy for extremity/trunk soft tissue sarcoma delivered in five days rather than over the conventional five weeks produced similar benefits and treatment side effects.

News | Radiation Therapy

Optimizing Preoperative Radiation Therapy in High-risk Sarcoma

October 28, 2021 — In a phase 2 single-institution study, UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers found ...

October 28, 2021

A new study shows that system-level changes to the way cancer care is delivered can also eliminate Black-white disparities in survival from early-stage lung and breast cancer.

News | Radiation Oncology

Intervention Eliminates Black-white Gaps in Survival from Early-stage Breast and Lung Cancer

October 25, 2021 — A new study shows that system-level changes to the way cancer care is delivered can also eliminate ...

October 25, 2021

Histolix, a leading developer of direct-to-digital read pathology solutions, announced it has launched a groundbreaking clinical trial to prove equivalency of its digital technology to current gold standard pathology testing.

News | Digital Pathology

Histolix Launches Direct-to-Digital Pathology Read Diagnostic Equivalency Clinical Trial

October 18, 2021 — Histolix, a leading developer of direct-to-digital read pathology solutions, announced it has ...

October 18, 2021

Magda El-Shenawee, University of Arkansas breast cancer research

News | Women's Health

NIH Grant Will Further Researcher’s Work Detecting Breast Cancer

October 11, 2021 — Electrical engineering professor Magda El-Shenawee’s effort to develop a more accurate and less ...

October 11, 2021

Scientists have identified two subtypes of metastatic prostate cancer that respond differently to treatment, information that could one day guide physicians in treating patients with the therapies best suited to their disease.

News | Prostate Cancer

Metastatic Prostate Cancer Comes in Two Forms, Which Could Guide Treatment

September 24, 2021 — Scientists have identified two subtypes of metastatic prostate cancer that respond differently to ...

September 24, 2021

Researchers studied participants in the Women’s Environmental Cancer and Radiation Epidemiology Study to evaluate the risk of coronary artery disease in breast cancer survivors.

News | Women's Health

Left Breast Radiation Therapy Doubles Heart Disease Risk in Young Women

September 22, 2021 — Radiation therapy is an effective and widely used treatment for breast cancer. While the benefits ...

September 22, 2021

Laws designed to help women with increased risk for missed breast cancer diagnoses may help catch the disease earlier, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers.

News | Breast Imaging

Legislation May Help Identify Breast Cancer Earlier in Certain At-risk Women

September 9, 2021 — Laws designed to help women with increased risk for missed breast cancer diagnoses may help catch ...

September 09, 2021

News | PET Imaging

Researchers Identify Mechanism That Can Help Guide Development of New STING-activating Drugs Using Imaging

September 8, 2021 — A new study from scientists at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center found that emerging ...

September 08, 2021

62-Year-Old Woman Who Underwent Hysterectomy for Uterine Cancer: Sagittal chest CT images demonstrate measurement of right (A) and left (B) lung length at hilar level from apex to diaphragmatic dome. Right lung length was 20.1 cm for reader 1 and 20.0 cm for reader 2; left lung length was 21.7 cm for reader 1 and 21.3 cm for reader 2. Patient did not require postoperative mechanical ventilation.

News | Computed Tomography (CT)

Preoperative Chest CT Improves Assessment of Postoperative Mechanical Ventilation

September 7, 2021 — According to ARRS’ American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), preoperative thoracic computed ...

September 07, 2021

Neuroscientists at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology carried out comparative studies to determine safe operating conditions for multiband EEG-fMRI imaging while maintaining acceptable data quality standards

News | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

Beckman Neuroscientists Define Safe Protocol for EEG-fMRI Imaging

September 7, 2021 — A team of psychologists and neuroscientists at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and ...

September 07, 2021

Mount Sinai scientists created an AI-based, automated system that learns to read patient data from electronic health records. Here the system identified dementia cases (purple dots) from a database of nearly 2 million patients (blue dots). Courtesy of the Glicksberg lab, Mount Sinai, N.Y., N.Y.

News | Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Create a Labor-saving Automated Method for Studying Electronic Health Records

September 2, 2021 — In an article published in the journal Patterns, scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount ...

September 02, 2021

Cedars-Sinai Cancer researchers have discovered that intestinal microorganisms help regulate anti-tumor immune responses to radiation treatments.

News | Radiation Therapy

Radiation Therapy Effectiveness for Cancer Patients Influenced by Gut Fungi

September 1, 2021 — The study, published on Aug. 13 in the peer-reviewed journal Cancer Cell, builds on prior studies ...

September 01, 2021

Patients treated with Xoft Brain IORT lived for a range of 4 to 54 months after treatment without recurrence, whereas patients in the control group had a recurrence within 2 to 10 months and lived for 2 to 22.5 months after treatment

News | Brachytherapy Systems

iCAD’s Xoft Brain IORT Demonstrates Significant Improvement in Overall Survival in Recurrent Glioblastoma

August 31, 2021 — iCAD, Inc., a global medical technology leader providing innovative cancer detection and therapy ...

August 31, 2021

$Investigator-led study explores feasibility and tolerability of single-fraction stereotactic ablative body radiotherapy using MRIdian's daily MRI-Guidance with on-table adaptive replanning$

News | Radiation Therapy

Miami Cancer Institute Enrolls First Patients in Single-Fraction Stereotactic MRI-Guided Adaptive Radiation Therapy for Inoperable Primary or Metastatic Cancer Trial

August 30, 2021 — ViewRay, Inc. announced that the Miami Cancer Institute, part of Baptist Health South Florida, has ...

August 30, 2021