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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Sept. 22, 2013 – The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) highlighted the recently published Adjuvant and ...

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The New York Proton Center (NYPC), a consortium of five leading hospitals in New York City, including Continuum Health ...

Time September 20, 2013
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September 19, 2013 – On September 4, Kettering Medical Center (Kettering, Ohio) became the first clinic in North America ...

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September 19, 2013 – RaySearch Laboratories AB announced that version 4.0 of RaySearch's RayStation treatment planning ...

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September 13, 2013 – Integrated with Versa HD linear accelerator, Elekta has introduced new intra-fraction imaging ...

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September 13, 2013 — The Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies issued its report, “Delivering High ...

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The QA modules of Standard Imaging Inc. PIPSpro feature a new, simplified user-interface for TG-142 testing. Since the ...

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September 11, 2013 -- Cancer patients from all over the world now have a new opportunity to access proton therapy at the ...

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September 9, 2013 — More than two decades after becoming the world’s first hospital-based proton therapy center, the ...

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September 5, 2013 -- American Shared Hospital Services announced today that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ...

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RaySearch Laboratories AB has received an order for its RayStation treatment planning system from Provision Center for ...

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Confidence is an important part of a radiation therapy planning session, especially when a facility is treating as many ...

Time August 28, 2013
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Feature | Raissa Rocha

The variety of radiation therapy options continues to grow with the development of treatment planning software, imaging ...

Time August 28, 2013
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Feature | Williette Nyanue

Beatriz Amendola, M.D., FACR, FASTRO, radiation oncologist, medical director, Innovative Cancer Institute (ICI), decided ...

Time August 28, 2013
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Feature | Raissa Rocha

In the past 20 years there have been considerable improvements in the treatment of prostate cancer. As it is across all ...

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August 28, 2013 — Hodgkin lymphoma survivors who received certain radiation and chemotherapy regimens were at increased ...

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August 28, 2013 — Experts have found that radiation dosage can have serious complications for patients with cancer ...

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August 28, 2013 — Nucletron, an Elekta company, has signed an agreement with the American Brachytherapy Society (ABS) to ...

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Technology

August 23, 2013 — Users of linear accelerator, Versa HD, can now bring target immobilization to new levels through ...

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August 21, 2013 — Proton therapy, using high-energy subatomic particles, may offer a precise, organ-sparing treatment ...

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