April 8, 2016 — Prostate cancer patients and their doctors may want to think twice about the best timing for ...
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 therapy, brachytherapy, image guided radiation therapy (IGRT), focused ultrasound, stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT), intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), treatment planning systems and tomotherapy.
April 8, 2016 — Wide variability exists in radiation treatment decisions following neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) and ...
April 6, 2016 — Giving early-stage prostate cancer patients a slightly higher daily dose of radiation can cut more than ...
Elekta’s latest linear accelerator, Harmony, is designed to provide a productive and versatile radiotherapy solution for ...
April 6, 2016 — Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) has become the first American cancer center and only the second ...
April 5, 2016 — The Focused Ultrasound Foundation has produced a video that demonstrates the potential of this new ...
April 5, 2016 — IBA (Ion Beam Applications SA) has recently received CE mark authorization of its new supra conducting ...
Automation is transforming the way we practice radiation oncology and advancing the standard of patient care. There have ...
As proton therapy becomes more widely available, imaging for the development of proton treatment plans will become more ...
April 1, 2016 — Pyrexar Medical announced a new distribution partnership with Clinitech Co. Ltd., bringing Pyrexar’s ...
April 1, 2016 — Augmenix Inc. announced the publication of the SpaceOAR System U.S. Clinical Trial results of the ...
Treating cancer effectively often includes a combination of patient therapies. In recent years, technology advancements ...
April 1, 2016 — Pyrexar Medical announced the achievement of ISO 13485 Certification and CE re-certification for its ...
March 31, 2016 — In a paper published in Nature Reviews last week, Axel Hoos, M.D., Ph.D., laid out the current ...
March 31, 2016 — New technology has enabled doctors to administer higher doses of radiation to prostate cancer patients ...
Transitioning to a new device vendor can provide improvements to outdated technology and workflow. It also requires a ...
March 30, 2016 — A prospective study examining a trimodality treatment approach in localized bladder cancer cases using ...
March 30, 2016 — MicroRNA molecules were discovered only relatively recently in humans, but have been shown to play a ...
March 30, 2016 — IBA (Ion Beam Applications SA) announced it has signed a contract with the University Hospitals Leuven ...
March 30, 2016 — Philips Healthcare introduced the first commercially available magnetic resonance (MR)-only simulation ...
March 29, 2016 — Choosing ongoing monitoring instead of immediate curative treatment (surgery or radiotherapy) leads to ...
March 24, 2016 — Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Global Radiotherapy Market Analysis & Trends - ...
March 23, 2016 — Florida Cancer Affiliates (FCA) is helping to pioneer a new tool aimed to protect prostate cancer ...
March 21, 2016 — Increased travel distance to a cancer treatment facility negatively impacts the likelihood that ...