ASTRO

This page includes the latest news from the American Society of Radiation Oncology (ASTRO), including news and video coverage from the society's annual meeting. ASTRO is the premier radiation oncology society in the world, with more than 10,000 members who are physicians, nurses, biologist, physicists, radiation therapists, dosimetrists and other healthcare professionals who specialize in treating patients with radiation therapy. 

News | Prostate Cancer

September 26, 2016 — For men with intermediate-risk prostate cancer, side effects at two years following radiation ...

Time September 26, 2016
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News | Radiation Therapy

September 26, 2016 — Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) for brain metastases decreases the likelihood of local recurrence ...

Time September 26, 2016
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News | Radiation Therapy

September 26, 2016 — At the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) Annual Meeting, Sept. 25-28 in Boston ...

Time September 26, 2016
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News | Lung Imaging

September 26, 2016 — New research suggests hypofractionated radiation therapy (RT) offers similar results to standard RT ...

Time September 26, 2016
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News | Proton Therapy

September 23, 2016 — IBA unveiled its new platform, 'Leading the PATh', which gathers the leading experts in the field ...

Time September 23, 2016
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News | Patient Positioning Radiation Therapy

September 23, 2016 — ZDi Solutions LLC announced that it will soon market its Z-System patient positioning devices to ...

Time September 23, 2016
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News | Radiation Therapy

September 23, 2016 — Three leading national cancer organizations issued a joint clinical practice guideline update for ...

Time September 23, 2016
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News | Proton Therapy

September 23, 2016 — Mevion Medical Systems announced that it will be installing its Mevion S250i proton therapy system ...

Time September 23, 2016
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News | Patient Positioning Radiation Therapy

September 23, 2016 — Vision RT announced it will be exhibiting at the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) ...

Time September 23, 2016
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News | Radiation Therapy

September 22, 2016 — At the 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO), Sept. 25-28 in ...

Time September 22, 2016
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News | Radiation Therapy

September 22, 2016 — Mevion Medical Systems will showcase its pencil beam scanning Hyperscan with Adaptive Aperture at ...

Time September 22, 2016
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News | Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA)

September 22, 2016 — The TeraMedica Division of Fujifilm Medical Systems U.S.A. Inc. recently announced a significant ...

Time September 22, 2016
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News | Radiation Therapy

September 14, 2016 — Spellman High Voltage Electronics Corp. announced that it will exhibit at the 2016 American Society ...

Time September 14, 2016
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News | Radiation Therapy

September 7, 2016 — The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) announced the press program for its 58th Annual ...

Time September 07, 2016
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Technology | Proton Therapy

August 18, 2016 — IBA (Ion Beam Applications SA) has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for its ...

Time August 18, 2016
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Videos | Quality Assurance (QA)

Patient QA Efficiency with Dolphin presented at AAPM 2016 IBA booth. Dolphin Online Ready is released and in clinical ...

Time August 15, 2016
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Videos | Radiation Oncology

AAPM President Bruce Curran, MEng, FAAPM, FACMP, FACR, discusses the key topics at the 2016 meeting of the American ...

Time August 12, 2016
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News | Radiation Therapy

July 22, 2016 — The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) recently issued a new clinical practice statement ...

Time July 22, 2016
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Technology

March 30, 2016 — Philips Healthcare introduced the first commercially available magnetic resonance (MR)-only simulation ...

Time March 30, 2016
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Feature | Radiation Oncology | By Rachael Bennett, R.T.(R)(T)

The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) 2015 annual meeting drew a crowd of more than 11,000 attendees. This ...

Time February 03, 2016
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