Radiation Oncology/Therapy: Page 373

Varian adds Barts to client list
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiation therapy firm Varian Medical Systems has installed its VARiS MedOncology system at St. Bartholomew's (Barts), a teaching hospital in northeast London.
March 13, 2006
CAD boosts performance of residents for assessing pulmonary nodules
By Erik L. Ridley
Computer-aided detection (CAD) offers improvements in the diagnostic performance of radiology residents in assessing the malignancy of pulmonary nodules from thin-section helical CT scans, but does not provide the same gains for board-certified radiologists, according to research published online before print in Radiology.
March 12, 2006
Novoste completes Best Vascular deal
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Vascular radiotherapy firm Novoste of Norcross, GA, has completed the sale of substantially all the assets of its vascular brachytherapy business to Best Vascular of Fairfax, VA.
March 9, 2006
NAS cuts losses in Q1
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiation therapy firm North American Scientific (NAS) reported revenues of $7.5 million for its fiscal 2006 first quarter (end-January 31), a decline of 8% compared with revenues of $8.2 million for the first quarter of fiscal 2005.
March 9, 2006
Bangladesh orders Varian linacs
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiation therapy company Varian Medical Systems has sold four linear accelerators to Bangladesh.
March 9, 2006
F-18 fluoride PET/CT accurately detects bone metastases in high-risk prostate cancer
By Jonathan S. Batchelor
For high-risk prostate cancer patients, detecting osseous metastatic disease is critical in the management of their cancer. Recently, researchers from Israel studied planar bone scintigraphy, single and multiple field-of-view SPECT, PET, and PET/CT to see how they compared in detecting bone metastases in these patients.
March 9, 2006
NeoRx reports 'going-concern' warning
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Oncology pharmaceutical firm NeoRx said that its auditor KPMG has included a "going-concern" qualification in its audit opinion of the Seattle-based firm's 2005 financial statements.
March 8, 2006
VC shows advantage for recurrent rectal cancer surveillance
By Eric Barnes
A recently published study that followed 434 rectal cancer patients with virtual colonoscopy and colonoscopy found that VC was 100% sensitive for detecting recurrent cancer, catching a few cases that were negative or indeterminate on optical colonoscopy, but also producing a few indeterminate results that were in fact negative.
March 7, 2006
PET/CT shows slight edge over MRI in melanoma staging
By Jonathan S. Batchelor
VIENNA - A recent prospective study comparing whole-body MRI with whole-body PET/CT in staging newly diagnosed malignant melanoma demonstrated that PET/CT has a slight edge in accuracy, but that both modalities missed local and distant metastases.
March 7, 2006
Skin condition after breast radiation requires clarification
By Shalmali Pal
SAN FRANCISCO - Acquired lymphangiectasis is the diffuse dilation of lymphatic channels by an external cause. It is a common complication in patients who have undergone radiation treatment for cervical cancer. A poster presentation this week at the American Academy of Dermatology described a case of acquired lymphangiectasis after breast radiotherapy.
March 5, 2006
CAD finds breast cancers that radiologists missed for years
By Eric Barnes
VIENNA - When breast computer-aided detection (CAD) software took a second look at mammograms containing a malignancy, it found most of the cancers radiologists had missed until they detected it in a later exam, according to a study presented at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR). In some cases, CAD found cancers that weren't detected until three to four years later.
March 5, 2006
RTS taps COO
Treatment center operator Radiation Therapy Services has appointed Patricia Gondolfo to the newly created position of COO.
March 5, 2006
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