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Radiation Oncology/Therapy: Page 224
Rad therapy may create breast cancer stem cells
By
AuntMinnie.com staff writers
When a breast cancer patient has a radiation therapy treatment, half of any residual tumor cells are killed. However, radiation therapy intended to cure patients may transform the other 50% into treatment-resistant breast cancer stem cells, according to an article published online February 10 in
Stem Cells
.
February 15, 2012
CIVCO promotes Therme
By
AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Ultrasound and radiotherapy products developer CIVCO Medical Solutions has promoted Robin Therme to senior vice president of sales and marketing for its Multi-Modality Imaging business group.
February 14, 2012
Post-op rad therapy unneeded for elderly lung cancer patients
By
Cynthia E. Keen
Patients who have undergone surgery to resect stage III non-small cell lung cancer with N2 lymph node involvement may not need postoperative radiation therapy if they are older than 65, as the treatment doesn't help survival, according to an article published online February 13 in
Cancer
.
February 12, 2012
Choline-PET/CT changes prostate cancer treatment plans
By
Wayne Forrest
Swiss researchers have found that PET/CT scans with the radiopharmaceutical choline can change treatment plans for certain patients with recurrent prostate cancer. Study results showed that choline-PET/CT significantly affected therapy management.
February 9, 2012
ASTRO issues guidelines for brain mets
By
AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) has issued evidence-based guidelines for radiotherapy and surgical management of cancer patients with newly diagnosed brain metastasis.
February 8, 2012
CIVCO shuffles management
By
AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Ultrasound and radiotherapy products developer CIVCO Medical Solutions has promoted several executives within its radiation oncology sales and marketing organization.
February 8, 2012
IsoRay touts Cleveland Clinic study
By
AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Medical isotope developer IsoRay Medical is touting a Cleveland Clinic study that found brachytherapy to have the fewest toxicities involving genital or urinary organs and the lowest total cost per patient, per year.
February 6, 2012
PET after radiation therapy predicts NSCLC survival
By
Wayne Forrest
PET can provide strong indicators of overall and disease-free survival among patients with locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) receiving radiation therapy, according to a study published in the February
Journal of Nuclear Medicine
.
February 2, 2012
Molecular Insight inks radiopharma deal
By
AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiopharmaceutical developer Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals has signed an agreement with the Centre for Probe Development and Commercialization to manufacture a new radiopharmaceutical designed to deliver therapeutic doses of radiation directly to metastatic prostate cancer.
January 30, 2012
Robotic IMRT-APBI works well for breast cancer patients
By
Cynthia E. Keen
For qualified patients diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer, accelerated partial-breast irradiation (APBI) brachytherapy offers an abbreviated course of treatment. But APBI delivered by a robotic intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) system offers the additional advantage of being noninvasive.
January 30, 2012
PET/CT detects head/neck cancer recurrences earlier
By
Cynthia E. Keen
Routine use of follow-up PET/CT scans can detect local cancer recurrences before they become clinically apparent, and may improve outcomes of subsequent salvage therapy, according to a study presented on Friday at the Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Symposium in Phoenix.
January 27, 2012
IMRT offers better outcome for head/neck cancer patients
By
Cynthia E. Keen
Patients treated with intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) for head and neck cancer reported increasingly better quality of life after treatment than patients receiving other forms of radiotherapy, according to a study presented at the Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Symposium in Phoenix.
January 26, 2012
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