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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April 28, 2010 - New approaches to image-guidance and motion management are making it possible to successfully target ...

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April 28, 2010 - Cancer imaging innovation accounted for 40 percent of the reduction in U.S. cancer deaths between 1996 ...

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April 23, 2010 - Professor Lars Leksell, the inventor of the Gamma Knife, a radiosurgical instrument, performed the ...

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April 21, 2010 - A computerized segmentation system can reliably estimate changes in tumor size on computed tomography ...

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April 21, 2010 - Tracking tumor motion is one of the biggest challenges in radiation therapy. Gating is of the most ...

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April 21, 2010 - A new platform for image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) and radiosurgery designed to treat a moving tumor ...

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April 21, 2010 - The American College of Radiology (ACR) is presently asking radiologists, radiation oncologists and all ...

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Feature | Gordon L. Grado, M.D., FACRO, FACR, founder and medical director of the Southwest Oncology Centers and the Grado Radiation Centers of Excellence.

Cancer doesn’t discriminate by gender, age or where a person resides. But in many cases, the quality of care a patient ...

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April 14, 2010 - A diagnostic imaging center expands its services to offer image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) and ...

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April 14, 2010 - One of the biggest challenges in radiation therapy is delivering the dose without damaging surrounding ...

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April 9, 2010 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will no longer allow a third party review process on new ...

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April 8, 2010 - Lung tumors have been among the most challenging radiation therapy targets because the patient's ...

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April 7, 2010 - The lack of radiation therapy treatment African-American women receive is not responsible for the poorer ...

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April 7, 2010 - According to statistics from the American Cancer Society, an estimated 48,000 people in New Jersey and ...

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April 6, 2010 - The three-year survival rate for patients receiving stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) was 55.8 ...

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April 6, 2010 - Helical TomoTherapy delivers continuous arc-based intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) that ...

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April 5, 2010 - The Medical Imaging and Technology Alliance (MITA) will participate in a medical device security ...

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March 31, 2010 - The Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA), an association representing the manufacturers ...

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March 30, 2010 - Among a group of patients who should received radiation therapy according to medical guidelines, 95 ...

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March 29, 2010 - Researchers found in patients with early breast cancer, delivering radiation therapy to the lymph nodes ...

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