Radiation Oncology: Page 56

Varian wins Florida radiosurgery contract
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiation therapy firm Varian Medical Systems has installed its Novalis Tx radiosurgery platform at a Florida hospital.
September 17, 2009
Space radiation study offers bone loss clues
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A research project funded by NASA that is looking for ways to reduce bone loss in astronauts may also identify methods to improve the bone health of cancer patients undergoing radiation therapy treatment.
September 15, 2009
Radiation therapy slows return of head/neck cancer
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A large, long-term outcomes study conducted in Norway revealed that radiation therapy may actually inhibit premalignant lesions in the upper aerodigestive tract from becoming cancerous for many years.
September 14, 2009
AHRQ analyzes particle beam radiation therapy
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has published a technical brief on particle beam radiation therapy, the agency's first in a series of technical briefs that summarize key issues regarding emerging treatments.
September 13, 2009
IGRT boosts outcomes for obese prostate cancer patients
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) may yield improved outcomes for moderately to severely obese prostate cancer patients, according to a study published in the September 1 issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics.
September 2, 2009
Varian debuts Unique for global markets
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiation therapy firm Varian Medical Systems has introduced a new low-energy radiation therapy system for international cancer clinics at this week's European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology conference in Maastricht, Netherlands.
August 30, 2009
TomoTherapy wins Kansas contract
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiation therapy firm TomoTherapy has won a contract with a Kansas cancer center.
August 27, 2009
Radiation oncology stages last-ditch rally against Medicare cuts
By Cynthia E. Keen
With an August 31 deadline for comments looming, advocates for radiation oncology in the U.S. are mounting a last-ditch effort to lobby against what they say could be devastating Medicare reimbursement cuts for radiation therapy procedures.
August 26, 2009
Radiation therapy recommended for phyllodes tumors
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Margin-negative surgical resection combined with adjuvant radiation therapy is effective for local control of borderline and malignant phyllodes tumors, a rare type of breast cancer, according to a new study.
August 26, 2009
Varian wins Swedish contract
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiation therapy firm Varian Medical Systems has won a contract with a proton therapy center in Sweden.
August 19, 2009
Survey: Radiation therapy equipment use far less than 90%
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Utilization rates for radiation therapy equipment in freestanding cancer treatment centers are closer to the current assumed rate of 50%, not 90% as stated by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in the Medicare physician fee schedule proposed rule for 2010, according to the American Society for Radiation Oncology.
August 16, 2009
Intraop adds Colombian customer
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Intraoperative radiation therapy firm Intraop Medical has signed Instituto Nacional de Cancerología in Bogota, Colombia, as a new user for its Mobetron linear accelerator.
August 11, 2009
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