American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) President Bruce Thomadsen, M.D., professor of medical physics at ...
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.
Feature | Proton Therapy | By Jeff Zagoudis
The Alliance for Proton Therapy Access (APTA) released a national report in late May revealing the heavy emotional and ...
July 03, 2018 
Feature | Radiation Therapy | By Melinda Taschetta-Millane
Treatment planning systems are at the heart of radiation therapy (RT) systems and the key to improved patient outcomes ...
June 05, 2018
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Videos | Radiation Therapy
Elekta’s latest linear accelerator, Harmony, is designed to provide a productive and versatile radiotherapy solution for ...
February 16, 2022
News | Lung Imaging
For smokers and former smokers, the threat of lung cancer always lurks in the shadows. To flush it out of the darkness ...
June 04, 2018
Feature | Computed Tomography (CT) | By Jeff Zagoudis
Computed tomography (CT) has long been the standard of care for imaging to plan radiation therapy (RT) treatments. CT ...
May 03, 2018
Feature | Proton Therapy | By Jeff Zagoudis
Proton therapy has experienced major growth in the last decade, but that growth seems to have slowed slightly in recent ...
March 06, 2018
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Blog | Artificial Intelligence
Automation is transforming the way we practice radiation oncology and advancing the standard of patient care. There have ...
June 07, 2021
News | Radiation Oncology
World Cancer Day takes place annually on Feb. 4 to raise awareness and education in the media, governments and people ...
February 01, 2018
Feature | Radiation Oncology | By Emily Clemons
Technological and scientific advances in radiation oncology are allowing practitioners to put patients first in profound ...
January 31, 2018
Videos | Radiation Therapy
Chris Toth, president, global commercial and field operations for Varian, takes a tour of Varian’s new product ...
November 15, 2017
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Videos | Information Technology
Treating cancer effectively often includes a combination of patient therapies. In recent years, technology advancements ...
December 01, 2020
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In establishing the new Southeast Cancer Center (Cape Girardeau, Mo.), clinic officials not only had the opportunity to ...
November 06, 2017
Feature | Proton Therapy | By Larisa Brass, MPH
Thirty-three. Twenty-nine. Sixty-four. These are the ages of the breast cancer patients who have walked through the ...
November 06, 2017
Videos | Women's Health
William Hall, M.D., radiation oncologist in the Department of Radiation Oncology at PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical ...
October 23, 2017
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Blog | Contrast Media
Transitioning to a new device vendor can provide improvements to outdated technology and workflow. It also requires a ...
October 20, 2020
Feature | Contrast Media | By Dave Fornell
Over the past decade, several clinical studies have shown gadolinium-based magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast ...
October 04, 2017
Feature | Oncology Information Management Systems (OIMS) | By Jeff Zagoudis
Cancer is perhaps the most highly personal, complex disease in our world today. While the various types of cancer are ...
September 08, 2017
News | Radiation Therapy
Each year, up to 650,000 people who were previously diagnosed with various forms of cancer will develop brain metastases ...
July 31, 2017
Feature | Radiation Oncology | By Jeff Zagoudis
Image-guided radiation therapy offers great potential to improve the efficiency of treating cancer patients by more ...
July 05, 2017
Feature | Treatment Planning | By Jeff Zagoudis
While radiation oncologists have a number of proven techniques at their disposal for treating patients, the reality is ...
July 05, 2017
News | Prostate Cancer
In the battle against metastatic prostate cancer, the removal of lymph node metastases using image-guided surgery may ...
June 15, 2017
News | Radiation Therapy
Radiation therapy (RT) using high-energy particles, like X-rays or electron beams, is a common and critical component in ...
June 13, 2017
News | Radiation Oncology
The alliance will study the feasibility of using CRnR’s converging x-ray lens technology as an effective radiotherapy ...
June 12, 2017
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