May 20, 2015 — State-of-the-art deformable image registration and multimodality imaging techniques continue to drive ...
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.
May 19, 2015 — Two studies from Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center add to preliminary evidence that stereotactic body ...
May 18, 2015 — For the first time the proton therapy world market is anticipated to reach $1 billion in 2019, according ...
Elekta’s latest linear accelerator, Harmony, is designed to provide a productive and versatile radiotherapy solution for ...
May 18, 2015 — Mount Sinai (New York) is expanding its use of an image-guided technology that focuses on removing only ...
May 18, 2015 — In Africa, cancer kills more people than HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. Approximately 40 ...
May 15, 2015 — iCAD Inc. announced that Noridian, the Medicare administrative contractor in Jurisdictions E and F, has ...
Automation is transforming the way we practice radiation oncology and advancing the standard of patient care. There have ...
May 15, 2015 — McKesson Specialty Health announced the availability of Clear Value Plus – Guideline Explorer to iPad ...
May 13, 2015 — Scientists at Tel Aviv Medical Center, Israel, have found that oral modified citrus pectin (MCP) enhances ...
May 13, 2015 — Cancer Targeted Technology (CTT), announced that it was awarded a NIH two-year, $2 million Small Business ...
Treating cancer effectively often includes a combination of patient therapies. In recent years, technology advancements ...
May 12, 2015 — A new study finds men with prostate cancer that has spread to nearby lymph nodes can benefit from the ...
May 12, 2015 — Women with luminal A subtype breast cancer, particularly those over 60, may not need radiation treatment ...
May 11, 2015 — Sage Bionetworks, together with collaborators in the research community, announced the launch of a ...
Transitioning to a new device vendor can provide improvements to outdated technology and workflow. It also requires a ...
May 11, 2015 — Provision Healthcare has signed a joint agreement with the Tianjin Taishan Cancer Hospital (International ...
May 11, 2015 — Austrian ion beam therapy center MedAustron will be the first center globally to employ a new tandem ...
May 8, 2015 — A U.K. National Cancer Research Institute trial has suggested that in patients with early stage Hodgkin ...
May 8, 2015 — IBA (Ion Beam Applications S.A., EURONEXT) announced the first clinical use of its Proteus Plus Universal ...
May 7, 2015 — The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) is issuing a new guideline, “Definitive and adjuvant ...
May 6, 2015 — Leksell Radiosurgery Award winner Deborah C. Marshall presented her research, “Survival Patterns of ...
May 5, 2015 — Ackerman Cancer Center in Jacksonville, Florida, treated its first four proton therapy patients at the end ...
Proton therapy has been on the rise in recent years, both in the United States and abroad, with more and more proton ...