Radiation Oncology/Therapy: Page 204

10-year prostate cancer outcomes show rad therapy's benefit
By Cynthia E. Keen
Ten-year clinical outcomes for prostate cancer patients participating in a trial comparing postoperative radiotherapy with observation only show that patients who were irradiated had significantly improved biochemical progression-free survival and local control.
October 18, 2012
Alliance HealthCare opens new oncology center
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Alliance HealthCare Services announced it has opened a new oncology therapy center in Missouri.
October 16, 2012
PiB-PET for Alzheimer's; QA for rad therapy; history of black lung screening
By Brian Casey
October 15, 2012
IBA wins Taiwan proton therapy contract
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiopharmaceutical provider Ion Beam Applications (IBA) has signed a memorandum of understanding with Changhua Christian Hospital in Taiwan for the installation of its Proteus One single-room compact proton therapy system.
October 15, 2012
Positron wins solid-state detector patent
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
PET vendor Positron has received a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for solid-state semiconductor detector technology used in precision measuring of coordinates and detection of ionization particles.
October 15, 2012
Learning from errors boosts QA in radiation therapy
By Cynthia E. Keen
Establishing a successful radiotherapy quality assurance (QA) program and a department-wide culture of safety is challenging. Sustaining it can be achieved with an incident learning system, as explained in an article published online in Practical Radiation Oncology.
October 15, 2012
Varian adds Taiwan hospital as customer
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiation therapy vendor Varian Medical Systems announced that 1,000-bed Cheng Ching General Hospital in Taichung, Taiwan, has begun treating cancer patients with a newly installed TrueBeam STx radiotherapy system.
October 15, 2012
Sensus sells 100th system
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Superficial radiation therapy provider Sensus Healthcare said it has made the 100th sale of its SRT-100 device for treating nonmelanoma skin cancers.
October 15, 2012
American Shared nets MD Anderson proton center sale
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiosurgery and radiation therapy center operator American Shared Hospital Services (AMS) has confirmed that it will supply a Mevion S250 proton therapy system for the MD Anderson Cancer Center Orlando proton therapy facility under construction.
October 14, 2012
Sirtex enters Argentine market
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Liver cancer therapy company Sirtex Medical has sold its radioembolization product SIR-Spheres to the Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires in Argentina.
October 14, 2012
Accuray CEO Thomson resigns
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiation oncology firm Accuray's long-time CEO Euan Thomson, PhD, has resigned, and in his place the company has appointed Joshua Levine as president and CEO.
October 11, 2012
Elekta, Brainlab collaborate on cancer treatment
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiation oncology firm Elekta and image-guided therapy firm Brainlab used the venue of the 2012 Congress of Neurological Surgeons currently under way in Chicago to announce a joint collaboration in which the firms can use each other's radiation oncology treatment plans.
October 7, 2012
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