For lung cancer that cannot be removed with surgery, radiotherapy is the primary treatment option. However, it is associated with a range of side effects, including fatigue and inflammation of the esophagus and lungs. Current methods to record lung-cancer treatment-related toxicities rely on assessment by healthcare professionals. Now a team from The University of Manchester and The Christie NHS Foundation Trust — both part of the Manchester Cancer Research Center — has explored the use of patient-reported outcomes to improve the recording of side effects for lung cancer patients.

A new novel imaging technique measurably improves upon current prostate imaging and may have significant implications for future treatment of prostate cancer patients, according to a report in the Jan. 6, 2015, issue of the journal Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Disease.

ECRI Institute’s 2015 Top 10 Hospital C-Suite Watch List, available as a free public service, answers key questions on new and emerging health technologies that potentially provide new ways to treat patients, improve care and reduce costs.

Ohio Governor John Kasich signed Ohio’s breast density inform bill into law (HB 394, Section 3702.40). Ohio becomes the 20th state to enact such a bill, which requires healthcare providers to inform women if they have dense breast tissue, which may negatively impact the ability to clearly diagnose breast cancer. This raises the number of American women living in states with some level of mandatory breast density notification to 60 percent.

Elekta's Versa HD system is making its clinical debut or preparing to treat patients at three Australian centers. On Oct. 1, 2014, Macarthur Cancer Therapy Centre at Campbelltown Hospital (Campbelltown, NSW) became the first clinic in Australia to treat patients on one of its two Versa HD systems. On Nov. 10, Adelaide Radiotherapy Centre followed suit with its first Versa HD patient treatments. Nelune Comprehensive Cancer Centre at Prince of Wales Hospital (Randwick, NSW) is making preparations to begin treating patients on its Versa HD system.

Adding radiation treatment to hormone therapy saves more lives among older men with locally advanced prostate therapy than hormone therapy alone, according to a new study in the Journal of Clinical Oncology this week from Penn Medicine researchers.

Doctors Imaging offers a quantitative diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), a new MRI technology that can detect brain damage not appearing on routine MRIs or CT scans.

Dune Medical Devices announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of an updated version of its flagship product, MarginProbe, a medical device that enables real-time detection of cancer at the surface of excised tissue specimens during breast-conserving cancer surgery.

Radiologists can transmit their reports, which can also contain access to images, to their referring physicians’ electronic health records (EHR) systems securely, efficiently, and cost effectively using carefully selected technology, according to a presentation by Advanced Data Systems Corp. (ADS) at the 2014 Radiology Society of North America (RSNA) annual meeting in Chicago, Nov. 30-Dec. 5.

RaySearch Laboratories AB (publ.) has entered into a long-term distribution agreement with Kamol Sukosol Electric Co. (KEC), in Bangkok, Thailand.