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.

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October 18, 2012 — Accuray Inc. announced the resignation of Euan S. Thomson as president and CEO, and director of the ...

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October 16, 2012 — The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) has issued an updated practice ...

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October 15, 2012 — For many people the words “proton therapy” may conjure up images of some type of high-tech treatment ...

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Technology

LXcan is designed to be the ideal solution for QA of image display devices. It features distance and contact measurement ...

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Technology

IQQA-Guide (works-in-progress) is a real-time 3-D image-guidance system that utilizes the company’s award-winning ...

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October 12, 2012 – The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) has named Mark P. Carol, M.D., a distinguished ...

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Technology

October 10, 2012 — At the opening of the 2012 Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) annual meeting in Chicago, Elekta ...

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October 4, 2012 — Less than three months after beginning clinical use of their Elekta Agility 160-leaf multi-leaf ...

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September 28, 2012 — On Sept. 3, three patients became Gleneagles Hospital's first to receive their radiation therapy ...

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Feature

Sept. 25, 2012 — The most comprehensive analysis yet of breast cancer shows that one of the most deadly subtypes is ...

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Feature

September 24, 2012 — Three Texas healthcare leaders announced new details of their plan to provide cancer patients with ...

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Technology

September 19, 2012 — Elekta recently announced the latest production release of its Monaco treatment planning system ...

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Technology

September 7, 2012 — RaySearch Laboratories AB announces that version 3.0 of RaySearch’s RayStation treatment planning ...

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Case Study

As radiation treatments have advanced in complexity, cancer treatment facilities have faced greater demands for accuracy ...

Time September 05, 2012
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Feature | Helen Kuhl

The external beam radiotherapy (EBRT) market has been active in recent months, with advances in techniques, devices and ...

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Feature | Joost Nuyttens, M.D., Ph.D.

The preferred treatment for patients with operable lung cancer is surgical resection. However, many lung cancer patients ...

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News

August 29, 2012 — Varian Medical Systems announced that it has become a supporter of a phase III study comparing ...

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August 29, 2012 — The ability of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to create exquisite images of the body’s soft tissues ...

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Blog

We want absolutes; things we can depend on; certainties in an unfortunately uncertain world. It’s the kind of faith we ...

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Videos | Radiation Therapy

Dr. Gary Ezzell, president of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), talks about current trends in ...

Time August 28, 2012
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