September 18, 2015 — A recently developed drug was significantly better at detecting recurring prostate cancer in early ...
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.
September 17, 2015 — ProTom International announced its accelerated focus on the installation of its Radiance 330 proton ...
September 15, 2015 — Hitachi Ltd. announced it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for ...
Elekta’s latest linear accelerator, Harmony, is designed to provide a productive and versatile radiotherapy solution for ...
The current state of proton therapy can be assessed fairly quickly by looking at a map: At the end of 2014, there were ...
September 14, 2015 — ImaginAb Inc. has released interim results from a Phase 2 clinical trial of IAB2M, the company's ...
The use of radiation therapy to treat cancer has been in existence for over a century, tracing back to the early days of ...
Automation is transforming the way we practice radiation oncology and advancing the standard of patient care. There have ...
Women who have breast cancer on their left side present a particular challenge to radiation oncologists. Studies have ...
September 9, 2015 — Ninety-six percent of clinics and hospitals in the United States that have purchased used or ...
September 9, 2015 — Varian Medical Systems is collaborating with two leading Cape Town universities to launch Africa's ...
Treating cancer effectively often includes a combination of patient therapies. In recent years, technology advancements ...
September 8, 2015 — Brainlab announced that its Automatic Brain Metastases Planning software has been used for the first ...
Plan optimization and dose calculation for complex VMAT plans are computationally challenging tasks. Depending on the ...
September 4, 2015 — Gustave Roussy has awarded Elekta with an order for four Versa HD linear accelerators, replacing ...
Transitioning to a new device vendor can provide improvements to outdated technology and workflow. It also requires a ...
September 3, 2015 — Mobius Medical Systems recently released DoseLab version 6.7. This new release adds significant ...
September 2, 2015 — Significant national and international momentum is building to include a proton therapy unit as part ...
September 2, 2015 — Varian Medical Systems has added a new cloud-based toolkit to the company's OncoPeer interactive ...
September 2, 2015 — Men with relatively unaggressive prostate tumors whose disease is carefully monitored by urologists ...
September 1, 2015 — University of Maryland Medicine and its Center for Metabolic Imaging and Image-Guided Therapeutics ...
September 1, 2015 — The American Society for Radiation Oncology’s (ASTRO’s) 57th annual meeting will be held at the ...
Most people assume strokes only happen to octogenarians, but recent evidence suggests that survivors of childhood cancer ...
The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) has selected seven leading physician-researchers to receive a total ...