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.

News | Radiation Therapy

Each year, up to 650,000 people who were previously diagnosed with various forms of cancer will develop brain metastases ...

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News | Image Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT)

July 25, 2017 — ViewRay Inc. announced recently that the first cancer patients have been treated using the company's ...

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News | Radiation Therapy

July 24, 2017 — Moffitt Cancer Center researchers launched a first-of-its-kind study comparing the long-term benefits of ...

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News | Radiation Therapy

July 21, 2017 — El Camino Hospital (Mountain View, Calif.) announced the installation of a new Calypso 4-D Localization ...

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News | Treatment Planning

July 21, 2017 — RaySearch Laboratories reported that eight additional proton therapy centers worldwide have recently ...

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News | Brachytherapy Systems

July 20, 2017 — Rates of recurrence in early-stage non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC) patients were virtually identical if ...

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News | Radiation Dose Management

July 19, 2017 — The American College of Radiology (ACR) recently collaborated with professional medical societies to ...

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News | Radiation Therapy

July 19, 2017 — The members of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) have elected three new officers to ...

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News | Radiation Therapy

July 19, 2017 — RAD Technology Medical Systems announced their most recent project at Glendale Adventist Medical Center ...

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News | Proton Therapy

July 18, 2017 — IBA (Ion Beam Applications S.A.) and Inova recently signed a contract for a two-room Proteus Plus proton ...

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News | Biopsy Systems

July 17, 2017 — Radiologists from Synergy Radiology Associates (SRA) in Houston are using the power of 3-D medical ...

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News | Proton Therapy

July 17, 2017 — Proton International (PI) and Beaumont Health recently opened the state’s first proton therapy center ...

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News | Proton Therapy

July 17, 2017 — The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) has issued an update to its recommendations for ...

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News | PET-CT

July 14, 2017 — Fluorine-18 (18F)-fluoromisonidazole (FMISO) is a positron emission tomography (PET) radiotracer that is ...

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News | Image Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT)

July 13, 2017 — Elekta and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre have initiated installation of Elekta’s MR-linac, an ...

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Technology | Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT)

July 5, 2017 — Varian Medical Systems has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for the ...

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News | Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT)

July 5, 2017 — A new study from Roswell Park Cancer Institute reporting the findings of the first clinical trial to ...

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Sponsored Content | Case Study | Treatment Planning

Recently, the oncology department needed to update its radiation therapy treatment planning system. The department ...

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Feature | Radiation Oncology | By Jeff Zagoudis

Image-guided radiation therapy offers great potential to improve the efficiency of treating cancer patients by more ...

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Feature | Treatment Planning | By Jeff Zagoudis

While radiation oncologists have a number of proven techniques at their disposal for treating patients, the reality is ...

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