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.

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January 11, 2010 - The first ever masked and sham-controlled study designed to demonstrate the efficacy and safety of ...

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October 13, 2009 - Cost to deliver radiation varies widely from one delivery method to the next, according to a new ...

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September 30, 2009 - A 17-year-old female with a complex arteriovenous malformation of the brain has become the first ...

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Accelerated partial breast irradiation, carbon nanotube X-ray for medical imaging and radiation therapy and stereotactic ...

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August 27, 2009 - Staged stereotactic radiotherapy with a 2-week interfraction interval for unresectable brain ...

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August 11, 2009 - Despite a hurried rise in robotic urological surgery in the past 10 years as hospitals try to stay ...

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Feature | Iris C. Gibbs, M.D., radiation oncologis

Advances in the medical field have allowed physicians to treat cancer patients in a number of different ways, including ...

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May 6, 2009 - Eric Nussbaum, M.D., chair of the National Brain Aneurysm Center based at St. Joseph's Hospital in St ...

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March 5, 2009 - The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center (Houston, TX) will add Elekta's Leksell Gamma Knife ...

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March 5, 2009 – Fifty patients who have undergone stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) at Temple University have ...

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March 2, 2009 - Accuray Inc. said today that its CyberKnife lung cancer treatments experienced significant growth in ...

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February 26, 2009 - Accuray Inc. said its recent 8th Annual CyberKnife Users' Meeting attracted over 500 surgeons ...

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January 27, 2009 – Varian Medical Systems and BrainLAB will showcase the Novalis Tx platform, performing image-guided ...

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January 14, 2009 – After performing stereotactic transperineal prostate biopsy on 747 patients, researchers concluded ...

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January 13, 2009 - Tampa Bay Radiation Oncology has opened the Tampa Bay area’s second CyberKnife treatment center and ...

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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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November 20, 2008 -The recently FDA-cleared Aktina pinPoint system is a frameless noninvasive localization and fixation ...

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Accuray's InTempo Adaptive Imaging System enhances the CyberKnife Robotic Radiosurgery System’s ability to continually ...

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September 23, 2008 - The number of newly-diagnosed cancer patients age 65 and older who are enrolled in Medicare’s ...

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September 23, 2008 - Accuray Inc. introduced at ASTRO 2008 its InTempo Adaptive Imaging System, which enhances the ...

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