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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March 12, 2008 - Doctors at Nagoya University Hospital in Nagoya, Japan, are using the Mobetron, self-shielding linear ...

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March 10, 2008 - IntraOp Medical Corp. said doctors at Nagoya University Hospital in Nagoya, Japan, are now using the ...

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March 6, 2008 - General Hospital Vienna of Vienna, Austria, successfully completed its first Volumetric Modulated Arc ...

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February 29, 2008 – Radiation oncologists, radiation medical physicists and surgical oncologists at The James Cancer ...

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February 20, 2008 - Varian Medical Systems will host multiple symposia about RapidArc radiotherapy technology to educate ...

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Feature | Rick Dana Barlow

One of the critical tools in the battle against cancer involves more than just a potent injectible serum, highly ...

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February 20, 2008 - Siemens Healthcare announces an exclusive partnership with Prowess Inc. to develop advanced ...

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February 19, 2008 – Elekta signed a purchase agreement to acquire CMS Inc., a deal valuing $75 million that is expected ...

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February 18, 2008 –ProCure Treatment Centers Inc. and the University of Pennsylvania’s Roberts Proton Therapy Center ...

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February 14, 2008 – The first Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT) treatment at General Hospital Vienna was ...

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February 13, 2008 - Liver cancer specialists at Jefferson's Kimmel Cancer Center in Philadelphia are beginning an 18 ...

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February 12, 2008 - Accuray Inc. today announced that two- and thee-year studies on its Cyberknife radiosurgery has ...

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February 11, 2008 - Hospital General de Navarra is one of the first hospitals in Spain to install Varian’s Trilogy ...

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February 7, 2008 - $1.5 million was donated to the Research and Education Foundation of the Radiological Society of ...

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February 7, 2008 - The first image-guided intensity modulated arc therapy patient treatment using commercially released ...

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February 7, 2008 – TomoTherapy Inc. completed production of its 200th TomoTherapy Hi·Art treatment system, shipping to ...

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Technology

SenoRx Inc. launched the Contura Multi-Lumen Balloon (MLB) Catheter for delivering brachytherapy to the surgical margins ...

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February 1, 2008 - TomoTherapy Inc. began shipping version 3.1 of its TomoTherapy Hi-Art treatment system, said to be a ...

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January 30, 2008 - In a study to determine safe dosages of the isotope astatine-211 for treating patients with recurring ...

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January 30, 2008 - Little Company of Mary Hospital and Health Care Centers in Evergreen Park, IL, has announced it will ...

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