Radiation Oncology

Radiation oncology is a medical specialty that uses radiation therapy to treat cancer. The radiation therapy channel covers all aspects of radiation oncology technology. Radiation therapy includes linear accelerators (LINAC), proton therapybrachytherapyimage guided radiation therapy (IGRT)focused ultrasoundstereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT), intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), treatment planning systems and tomotherapy.

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June 12, 2015 - A new molecular imaging agent has been demonstrated to find prostate cancer that has spread to other ...

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June 11, 2015 - At the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI), June 6-10 ...

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June 10, 2015 - In May, Group of Companies European Medical Center (GEMC) became the first private clinic in Russia to ...

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June 8, 2015 - The Center for Biomedical Research (CBR) is partnering with the Ackerman Cancer Center as part of a ...

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June 8, 2015 - The Mevion S250 proton therapy system at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH) is now treating ...

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June 4, 2015 - The nation's first and only proton therapy center to treat patients exclusively with pencil-beam scanning ...

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Case Study | Sponsored by RaySearch Laboratories

Proton therapy is an exciting modality in radiation oncology. It is the target of both positive and negative ...

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Feature | By Katherine Zukotynski, M.D.

There has been growing discussion and excitement surrounding the possibility of personalized medicine and targeted ...

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Feature | Melinda Taschetta-Millane

Today, treatment planning - the heart of radiation therapy systems - is almost entirely computer based, and is designed ...

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June 3, 2015 - Doctors from the Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation at Children's National Health ...

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June 2, 2015 - New research has found that esophageal cancer patients treated with proton therapy experienced ...

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June 2, 2015 — Researchers funded by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) have ...

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June 1, 2015 — At the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s (ASCO) annual conference in Chicago, Siemens presented ...

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June 1, 2015 — IBA (Ion Beam Applications S.A) announced the release of an exclusive feature that reduces the power ...

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May 29, 2015 — Phase III results of Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) 0537 indicate that acupuncture-like ...

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May 28, 2015 — With the introduction of Elekta's new Leksell Gamma Knife Icon, the benefits of precision cranial ...

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May 28, 2015 — At the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) annual meeting, May 2-6 in Washington, D.C ...

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May 28, 2015 — The novel Ga-68-PSMA-ligand positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) has substantially ...

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May 26, 2015 — VeriTeQ Corp. announced that it has been awarded a U.S. Patent for Wireless Molecular Sensor System and ...

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May 26, 2015 — Three new studies evaluating the primary care trends in prostate cancer screening were presented during ...

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