Gustave Roussy has awarded Elekta with an order for four Versa HD linear accelerators, replacing their existing installed base of competing systems. The premier European comprehensive cancer center started its radiotherapy program in 2013.

Women who are carriers of mutated BRCA genes are known to have a significantly higher risk for developing breast and ovarian cancers than those who don't have the mutations. But a new study by the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) faculty questions the value of screening for the genetic mutations in the general population — including those who do not have cancer or have no family history of the disease — because of the high cost.

School-age children born prematurely are more likely to have low mathematical achievement, thought to be associated with reduced working memory and number skills, according to a study in the neurology journal Brain.

Linköping University Hospital in Sweden has installed SyMRI Neuro from SyntheticMR in order to improve the follow-up of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS).

Varian Medical Systems has added a new cloud-based toolkit to the company's OncoPeer interactive online forum, making development tools available for research that has the potential to lead to next-generation cancer treatment technologies.

University of Maryland Medicine and its Center for Metabolic Imaging and Image-Guided Therapeutics (CMIT) has begun to use magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-guided focused ultrasound on a deep structure within the brain related to Parkinson’s disease.

The American Society for Radiation Oncology’s (ASTRO’s) 57th annual meeting will be held at the Henry B. González Convention Center, Oct.18-21, 2015, in San Antonio.