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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December 29, 2008 - Avalon Portfolio LLC, on Dec. 23, 2008, nominated four new directors to serve on the board of ...

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December 29, 2008 - A combination treatment of prostate cancer can cut death rates in half, according to results from a ...

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December 29, 2008 - Accuray Inc. said that 100 CyberKnife Robotic Radiosurgery Systems now have been installed within ...

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December 23, 2008 - The FDA cleared Ion Beam Applications’ (IBA) cyclotron-based integrated commercial proton therapy ...

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December 23, 2008 — The Alfred in Melbourne, Australia, used AngioDynamics’s NanoKnife system, which leverages ...

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December 22, 2008 - A Swiss cancer clinic is among the first in the world to use the newest radiotherapy technology from ...

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December 22, 2008 - SenoRx Inc. said the United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted the company its sixth ...

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December 22, 2008 - Doctors at the Cancer Treatment Services in Casa Grande, AZ, have begun treating cancer patients ...

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December 19, 2008 — While radiation treatments deliver precise doses of high-energy X-rays to stop cancer cells from ...

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December 18, 2008 - Doctors at the Cancer Treatment Services in Casa Grande, AZ, have begun treating cancer patients ...

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December 18, 2008 - Therapeutic strategies that use neoadjuvant RT for patients with resectable pancreatic cancer showed ...

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December 12, 2008 - Currently, combinations of chemotherapy and radiotherapy are the standard treatment approach for ...

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December 11, 2008 - The first patient to be treated clinically with a new treatment planning system for proton radiation ...

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December 10, 2008 - The American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO) and the American College of ...

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December 10, 2008 – A prostate cancer patient from Warrington in Cheshire, UK, becomes first in his country to be ...

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December 4, 2008 - A 60-year-old prostate cancer patient from Montpellier has become the first person in France to be ...

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December 5, 2008 - The release of the new T-form SecureVac Box Adapter from Bionix Radiation Therapy is a replacement of ...

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December 1, 2008 - Radiation Shield Technologies (RST) introduced the new Demron-M radiation-blocking garments at RSNA ...

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November 25, 2008 - Techniques such as axillary node sampling (ANS) and, more recently, sentinel node biopsy, in ...

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November 24, 2008 - For breast cancer patients who underwent a mastectomy who undergo radiation therapy after immediate ...

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