December 22, 2008 - A Swiss cancer clinic is among the first in the world to use the newest radiotherapy technology from ...
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.
December 22, 2008 - SenoRx Inc. said the United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted the company its sixth ...
December 22, 2008 - Doctors at the Cancer Treatment Services in Casa Grande, AZ, have begun treating cancer patients ...
Elekta’s latest linear accelerator, Harmony, is designed to provide a productive and versatile radiotherapy solution for ...
December 19, 2008 — While radiation treatments deliver precise doses of high-energy X-rays to stop cancer cells from ...
December 18, 2008 - Doctors at the Cancer Treatment Services in Casa Grande, AZ, have begun treating cancer patients ...
December 18, 2008 - Therapeutic strategies that use neoadjuvant RT for patients with resectable pancreatic cancer showed ...
Automation is transforming the way we practice radiation oncology and advancing the standard of patient care. There have ...
December 12, 2008 - Currently, combinations of chemotherapy and radiotherapy are the standard treatment approach for ...
December 11, 2008 - The first patient to be treated clinically with a new treatment planning system for proton radiation ...
December 10, 2008 - The American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO) and the American College of ...
Treating cancer effectively often includes a combination of patient therapies. In recent years, technology advancements ...
December 10, 2008 – A prostate cancer patient from Warrington in Cheshire, UK, becomes first in his country to be ...
December 4, 2008 - A 60-year-old prostate cancer patient from Montpellier has become the first person in France to be ...
December 5, 2008 - The release of the new T-form SecureVac Box Adapter from Bionix Radiation Therapy is a replacement of ...
Transitioning to a new device vendor can provide improvements to outdated technology and workflow. It also requires a ...
December 1, 2008 - Radiation Shield Technologies (RST) introduced the new Demron-M radiation-blocking garments at RSNA ...
November 25, 2008 - Techniques such as axillary node sampling (ANS) and, more recently, sentinel node biopsy, in ...
November 24, 2008 - For breast cancer patients who underwent a mastectomy who undergo radiation therapy after immediate ...
November 20, 2008 – In the most comprehensive correlative analysis of biomarker data for glioblastoma multiforme ...
November 20, 2008 – Adult patients with low grade glioma, a type of malignant brain tumor, had a better chance for ...
November 20, 2008 -The recently FDA-cleared Aktina pinPoint system is a frameless noninvasive localization and fixation ...
November 20, 2008 - Nucletron, a knowledge-based leader in radiation oncology, has received 510(k) clearance from the ...
November 19, 2008 - IntraOp Medical Corp. announced its second German order for the Mobetron, which delivers ...