Each year, community cancer centers treat about 85 percent of cancer patients in the United States.1 Agnesian HealthCare ...
Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT)
Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT), or stereotactic ablative radiotherapy, is a type of radiation therapy that precisely targets a tumor with high doses of radiation by using several beams of various intensities aimed at different angles.
In arc therapy, a linear accelerator gantry moves in a continuous arc around the target while delivering radiation dose ...
March 16, 2012 – The current Guinness World Record holder for the tallest man, Sultan Kosen, won't be posting new ...
Elekta’s latest linear accelerator, Harmony, is designed to provide a productive and versatile radiotherapy solution for ...
Each year, community cancer centers treat about 85% of cancer patients in the United States.1 Agnesian HealthCare Cancer ...
Radiotherapy (RT) as a way to treat cancer is growing as a field, now that its accuracy has been improving. One reason ...
Intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) emerged as a new way to treat patients in the late 1990s and garnered ...
The Radiation Oncology department at Missouri’s Mosaic Life Care at St. Joseph treats 50-60 patients per day and ...
January 30, 2012 — Accuray Incorporated, a radiation oncology company, announced publication of a study demonstrating ...
Five leading cancer institutions are taking part in the first multi-institutional Phase II study of hypofractionated ...
Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) is an investigational radiotherapy modality for the treatment of localized ...
October 24, 2011 – Cancer experts from around the world gathered in Berlin to hear about advances in radiotherapy that ...
Oct. 20, 2011 — The Radiosurgery Society (RSS), a nonprofit organization of medical professionals dedicated to advancing ...
September 30, 2011 — The CyberKnife Coalition announced that more than 500 men have been enrolled in the first national ...
August 4, 2011—The first multi-institutional study evaluating a new form of radiation treatment for prostate cancer ...
July 25, 2011 — Accuray Inc. announced the installation of the CyberKnife robotic radiosurgery system at five academic ...
The first applications of and even the term radiosurgery were the idea of Swedish neurosurgeon Lars Leksell, which he ...
Hypofractionated radiotherapy regimens are emerging as an effective treatment option for many prostate cancer patients ...
July 5, 2011 — Cancer patients in Sweden have gained access to fast and efficient radiotherapy treatments with the ...
In the United States, approximately 1.53 million people were diagnosed with cancer and more than 569,000 died of the ...
May 20, 2011 - Accuray Incorporated announced that 85 percent of European CyberKnife centers are performing prostate ...
April 5, 2011 – The volume of normal brain tissue exposed to radiation during treatment for multiple metastases appears ...