Radiation Oncology/Therapy: Page 57

ViewRay prepares for $50M stock offering

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Image-guided radiation therapy vendor ViewRay expects to raise approximately $50 million in gross proceeds from a public offering of its common stock this week.

January 4, 2021

Accuray nets FDA nod for ClearRT imaging technology

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Radiation oncology firm Accuray has garnered U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for its ClearRT helical kilovoltage CT imaging technology.

January 4, 2021

ViewRay posts mixed financial results for Q4, year

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Image-guided radiation therapy vendor ViewRay reported a sharp decline in revenues for its fiscal year 2020 compared with the year before, but it was able to reverse the trend in the fourth quarter.

January 3, 2021

Report: COVID-19 causing radioisotope delays

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

A drop in the volume of passenger airline travel is causing delays in the shipment of medical radioisotopes from sources in Canada, according to a January 3 report by Reuters.

January 3, 2021

ASTRO lauds delay of radiation therapy payment reform

By Brian Casey

The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) is lauding a provision included in the massive U.S. government spending bill passed December 21 that would push to January 2022 implementation of payment reform for radiation therapy procedures.

December 21, 2020

South Korean hospital hits milestone with ViewRay system

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The Seoul National University Hospital in South Korea announced that it has hit a milestone with its MRIdian MRI-guided radiation therapy system from ViewRay, having treated 1,000 patients in the last five years.

December 21, 2020

Copper radiotracers ID tumors, improve survival

By Rebekah Moan

Two copper radionuclides that target the somatostatin receptor overexpressed in neuroendocrine tumors can not only identify tumors but also improve survival, according to new research published in the December issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

December 20, 2020

IBA adds CBCT to 2 proton therapy centers

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Proton therapy developer Ion Beam Applications (IBA) is adding conebeam CT (CBCT) to proton therapy systems it has installed at Northwestern Medicine Proton Center in Chicago and the Centre Antoine Lacassagne in Nice, France.

December 17, 2020

Shine breaks ground for new headquarters

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Shine Medical Technologies has broken ground in Janesville, WI, on a 54,000-sq-ft facility that will serve as its headquarters and a production facility for its new therapeutics division, established in 2019.

December 16, 2020

TRIUMF inks deal for actinium-225 production

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Canadian particle accelerator center TRIUMF has entered a collaboration with Fusion Pharmaceuticals for the production of actinium-225, which has potential as a cancer-killing radioisotope.

December 15, 2020

US microbubble destruction may improve TARE response

By Theresa Pablos

Patients with a common form of liver cancer experienced better treatment outcomes in a recent study when clinicians paired transarterial radioembolization (TARE) with microbubble destruction by ultrasound (US) waves, according to early results published on December 15 in Radiology.

December 14, 2020

Physicians often miss rad therapy side effects

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Physicians often missed key side effects of radiation therapy in patients with breast cancer who participated in a new study being presented at the 2020 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. Common side effects missed by physicians included pain, itchy skin, swelling, and fatigue.

December 9, 2020

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