Radiation Oncology/Therapy: Page 177

DWI-MRI is key for rectal cancer patient follow-up
By Wayne Forrest
Sunday, December 1 | 11:55 a.m.-12:05 p.m. | SSA07-08 | Room E450ADiffusion-weighted MRI (DWI-MRI) can be useful for following up patients after primary rectal cancer surgery or nonsurgical treatment, and it can help detect locally recurrent disease.
November 6, 2013
DCE-MRI appears accurate for soft-tissue tumor biopsy
By Wayne Forrest
Sunday, December 1 | 11:45 a.m.-11:55 a.m. | SSA14-07 | Room E451BA preliminary study by Austrian researchers indicates that soft-tissue tumor biopsy can be performed accurately and safely using dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) 3-tesla MRI.
November 6, 2013
Endoscopy with MRI accurately assesses rectal cancer after chemoradiation
By Wayne Forrest
Sunday, December 1 | 11:45 a.m.-11:55 a.m. | SSA07-07 | Room E450ADutch researchers have achieved high accuracy by combining endoscopy, T2-weighted MRI, and diffusion-weighted MRI to assess response to chemoradiation in rectal cancer patients.
November 6, 2013
MRI sequences aid cancer detection in sarcoma patients
By Wayne Forrest
Sunday, December 1 | 11:05 a.m.-11:15 a.m. | SSA14-03 | Room E451BAdding functional MRI sequences to a routine scanning protocol increases specificity and could reduce unnecessary biopsies and anxiety for sarcoma patients, according to researchers from Johns Hopkins University.
November 6, 2013
Eckert & Ziegler acquires brachytherapy firm
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Eckert & Ziegler BEBIG, the medical device division of Eckert & Ziegler, has acquired a brachytherapy firm.
November 5, 2013
Keep the skeletal survey for multiple myeloma
By Rebekah Moan
Tuesday, December 3 | 12:45 p.m.-1:15 p.m. | LL-MKS-TU2B | Lakeside Learning CenterA skeletal survey is a useful imaging tool for the initial staging of multiple myeloma, particularly in countries where MR resources are limited, U.K. researchers will report in this presentation.
November 5, 2013
New taxonomy could improve rad therapy incident reporting
By Brian Casey
Everyone agrees that improvements are needed in reporting incidents during radiation therapy treatments that can affect patients. But such reporting is tricky, especially if radiation oncology facilities aren't even using the same language to describe incidents.
November 4, 2013
AuntMinnie.com Radiation Oncology Insider
By Brian Casey
October 31, 2013
RT after mastectomy doesn't affect tissue expanders
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
New data published in Radiation Oncology show that a tissue expander can withstand radiation levels well above the maximum dose level typically used in postmastectomy radiation therapy (RT).
October 30, 2013
RSNA funds new imaging physics residencies
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
RSNA has increased its support of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine to create a total of eight new residencies in imaging physics.
October 28, 2013
Breast cancer radiation boosts heart disease risk
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Patients with early stages of breast cancer who receive more direct radiation to the heart during treatment have a higher risk of heart disease, according to a research letter published online in JAMA Internal Medicine.
October 28, 2013
Radiation Therapy acquires OnCure
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiation oncology firm Radiation Therapy Services Holdings has completed its acquisition of OnCure Holdings for approximately $125 million.
October 27, 2013
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