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Congress eyes safety of VA prostate brachytherapy: Part 1
By Cynthia E. Keen
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has suspended prostate brachytherapy programs at nearly half of the VA medical centers performing the procedure, VA representatives told members of U.S. Congress last month in hearings held to investigate allegations of shoddy work at a VA facility in Philadelphia.
August 5, 2009
Neuroblastoma patients face chronic health risks
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A survey of almost 1,000 adults who received treatment as young children for neuroblastoma between 1970 and 1986 and survived their illness revealed that 41.1% had experienced one or more chronic health conditions later in life.
August 4, 2009
Eckert & Ziegler continues record course
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Fueled by sales growth in its Nuclear Imaging segment, radiation therapy and radiopharmaceutical developer Eckert & Ziegler Strahlen-und Medizintechnik set new sales records at the six-month mark of 2009.
August 3, 2009
BSD system integrates with GE MRI
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Brachytherapy and hyperthermia therapy developer BSD Medical has completed the integration of its BSD-2000/3D/MR hyperthermia system with a 1.5-tesla MRI scanner from GE Healthcare.
August 2, 2009
TomoTherapy posts Q2 results
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiation therapy firm TomoTherapy posted its second-quarter financial results.
July 30, 2009
Varian Medical grows Q3 sales, profit
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiation therapy firm Varian Medical Systems reported that efforts to control costs helped the company's bottom line in the third quarter of fiscal 2009.
July 29, 2009
ASTRO decries proposed rad therapy cuts
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A new survey indicates that a proposed 19% cut in federal payments for radiation therapy will cause many cancer centers to reduce services, deny treatment to Medicare patients, or close, according to the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO).
July 29, 2009
AAPM: Honey, I shrunk the x-ray tubes
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Researchers from the University of North Carolina have developed miniaturized x-ray tube technology that could be more accurate than existing x-ray tubes, according to research presented at the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) annual meeting.
July 28, 2009
Xoft launches Axxent multicenter trial
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Brachytherapy device developer Xoft has launched a multicenter skin cancer trial for its Axxent eBx electronic brachytherapy system.
July 27, 2009
Surgery doesn't improve survival for stage III lung cancer patients
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Performing surgery following concurrent chemotherapy and radiotherapy for patients with stage IIIA (N2) non-small cell lung cancer does not lead to better overall survival rates than chemotherapy and radiation therapy alone, according to a landmark Radiation Therapy Oncology Group study published in the Lancet.
July 27, 2009
New oncology trial consent form template developed
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Researchers have developed a new shorter and simpler consent form template for cancer patients invited to participate in phase I clinical trials.
July 27, 2009
Hybrid linac-MRI prototype may offer more precise treatment
By Cynthia E. Keen
Canadian scientists are presenting research on a new technology that places an MRI scanner onboard a medical linear accelerator at this week's American Association of Physicists in Medicine meeting in Anaheim, CA.
July 27, 2009
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