Radiation Oncology/Therapy: Page 206

Breast brachytherapy may cause more complications
By Cynthia E. Keen
Breast brachytherapy has become increasingly popular for older and elderly women with early-stage breast cancer, but they may wish to think twice before selecting this treatment, based on a study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
October 24, 2012
Varian readies Vitesse update for ASTRO
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiation therapy firm Varian Medical Systems will highlight the latest version of its Vitesse real-time treatment planning software for high-dose-rate brachytherapy at next week's American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) meeting in Boston.
October 23, 2012
D3 Oncology reaches milestones
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Oncology services provider D3 Oncology Solutions has completed its 30,000th advanced treatment plan and commissioned its 100th linear accelerator.
October 22, 2012
InSightec gets FDA nod for bone metastases
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Focused-ultrasound developer InSightec has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its ExAblate MRI-guided focused-ultrasound system to treat pain from bone metastases in patients who do not respond to or cannot undergo radiation therapy.
October 21, 2012
Oncology Services gets ISO recertification
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiation oncology service company Oncology Services International has been recertified for International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9001:2008 for its quality management system.
October 21, 2012
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
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