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.

News | Radiation Therapy

The watch-and-wait approach shows particular relevance to older women and those with additional serious health problems ...

Time December 18, 2015
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News | Proton Therapy

December 17, 2015 — Hitachi Ltd. announced that St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital opened the St. Jude Red Frog ...

Time December 17, 2015
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News | Radiation Oncology

A new template published by the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) standardizes and streamlines the ...

Time December 09, 2015
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News | Proton Therapy

November 7, 2015 —As the nation prepares to honor its military this Veteran’s Day, physician-scientists at Loma Linda ...

Time December 07, 2015
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News | Radiation Therapy

December 7, 2015 — A new brachytherapy technique using a shield that rotates in a corkscrew pattern inside a tube-shaped ...

Time December 07, 2015
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Technology | Tumor Tracking Systems

December 2, 2015 — Philips announced IntelliSpace Portal 8.0, the latest edition of its advanced data sharing, analytics ...

Time December 02, 2015
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News | Prostate Cancer

November 25, 2015 — Two studies in the November 17 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) ...

Time November 25, 2015
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News | Treatment Planning

November 24, 2015 — CERN, INFN and RaySearch Laboratories AB signed a long-term license agreement in September allowing ...

Time November 24, 2015
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News | Treatment Planning

November 24, 2015 — RaySearch Laboratories AB announced that The US Oncology Network has selected RayStation to be ...

Time November 24, 2015
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News | Treatment Planning

November 24, 2015 — RaySearch Laboratories AB and Accuray Inc. expanded on their existing relationship with a new long ...

Time November 24, 2015
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Technology | Quality Assurance (QA)

November 24, 2015 — The CIRS Multi-Modality Male Pelvic Phantom was designed for realistic abdominal and transrectal ...

Time November 24, 2015
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News | Computed Radiography (CR)

CIRS ATOM phantoms are a full line of anthropomorphic, cross sectional dosimetry phantoms designed to investigate organ ...

Time November 23, 2015
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News | Computed Tomography (CT)

Samsung NeuroLogica Corporation, the healthcare subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and a leading provider of ...

Time November 23, 2015
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News | Prostate Cancer

Now, for the first time, UCLA researchers have described cost across an entire care process for low-risk prostate cancer ...

Time November 23, 2015
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News | Radiation Oncology

RaySearch Laboratories AB (publ) announced today that The US Oncology Network, one of America’s largest networks of ...

Time November 23, 2015
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News | Radiation Oncology

IBA (Ion Beam Applications S.A.) announced that the newly opened Texas Center for Proton Therapy is now treating cancer ...

Time November 23, 2015
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News | Radiation Oncology

In a paper published in the journal Nature Communications, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine ...

Time November 23, 2015
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News | Radiation Oncology

Low-risk prostate cancer patients in Canada may be opting for treatment with major life-changing side-effects without ...

Time November 23, 2015
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Technology | Treatment Planning

November 20, 2015 — GE Healthcare introduced the Discovery RT, a new advanced radiation therapy planning computed ...

Time November 20, 2015
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News | Proton Therapy

November 20, 2015 – Mevion Medical Systems is announcing the Los Angeles Proton Center is building a three-room Mevion ...

Time November 20, 2015
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