Search Tag: Radiotherapy
2024 15 Apr
GT Medical Technologies, Inc. (GT MedTech) announces the successful acquisition of Cesium-131 and related assets from Isoray Medical, a subsidiary of Perspective Therapeutics, Inc. This acquisition solidifies GT MedTech's position as sole manufacturer of Cesium-131 brachytherapy seeds for cancer treatments. The completion of the acquisition...Read more
2024 29 Feb
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2023 19 Jun
United Imaging Healthcare , a company that develops and manufactures equipment for medical and molecular imaging, radiotherapy, and life science instrumentation, and provides smart digital solutions to customers worldwide, announces a major partnership in France with Qualimedis, a company that provides several innovative products and quality assurance...Read more
2022 18 Oct
Hybrid Event PROSCA: 18 & 19 October 2022 BLADDR: 20 & 21 October 2022 Find Mirrors of Medicine on Social Media Read more
2021 22 Mar
Researchers from the Clatterbridge Cancer Centre, University of Liverpool and Lancashire Teaching Hospitals presented results from a study on “Use of an e-learning Tool to Increase Therapeutic Radiographer Knowledge and Awareness regarding Information Giving on the Late Effects of Pelvic Radiotherapy” at the Annual Radiotherapy and Oncology Meeting...Read more
2020 27 May
There is sufficient clinical evidence to show that the use of certain chemotherapeutic drugs is associated with cardiac toxicity. In many cases, the impairment in cardiac dysfunction caused by these drugs is lifelong and can severely impair the quality of life of patients. While many drugs continue to be approved to treat malignancies, the cardiac...Read more
2019 26 Aug
Summary: How a European Society of Radiology flagship initiative is addressing quality and safety in medical imaging. EUROSAFE IMAGING has celebrated five years of success in its mission to support and strengthen medical radiation protection across Europe. Through its Stars network, EUROSAFE IMAGING makes efforts to give radiation protection...Read more
2020 31 Jul
POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19 HEALTH CONCERMS TO JUL 31ST - AUG 4TH Find ESTRO on Social Media Read more
2019 28 Feb
GE Healthcare has partnered with the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA) to supply latest technology in computed tomography (CT), Discovery RT, to Lagos University Teaching Hospital Partnership will ensure provision of latest technology to enable early diagnostics and better treatment...Read more
2019 13 Feb
An interesting line-up of activities is scheduled during the forthcoming European Congress of Radiology (ECR) 2019 to celebrate EuroSafe Imaging 's five years of success in medical radiation protection. The programme aims to ensure that the issue of radiation protection in medical imaging is front and centre throughout the congress, organisers said. ...Read more
2016 13 Oct
“Radiotherapy, the cancer treatment of the past or future?” was the title of a presentation delivered to members of the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee (P&SC) on 10 October 2016 at the House of Commons. The talk was organised jointly by the BIR and IPEM. The multidisciplinary presentation, chaired by Stephen Metcalfe MP, was delivered...Read more
2016 05 Jun
Having radiotherapy once a day for six and a half weeks or twice a day for three weeks – when combined with chemotherapy – is equally good at treating small cell lung cancer that hasn’t spread. These results – from a Cancer Research UK-funded clinical trial presented at the ASCO cancer conference in Chicago – mean patients and doctors...Read more
2015 05 Oct
The 15th annual course of our Society will focus on practically orientated education of cancer imaging through interactive teaching and the fostering of active learning. Multidisciplinary work practising state of the art and novel imaging techniques will be highlighted in cooperation with the British Nuclear Medicine Society . Special plenary session...Read more
2015 18 Jun
Radiation experts in the UK have drawn up a new system to streamline approval process for setting up clinical trials involving radiotherapy and other forms of ionising radiation, such as PET scans. The new system provides a standardised way of assuring that exposure to ionising radiation during clinical trials remains within safe limits, while also...Read more
2015 23 Apr
A positron-emission tomography (PET) scan immediately after treatment with chemotherapy can identify patients who have a very good outcome without additional radiotherapy, according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine . The "RAPID" trial involved 602 Hodgkin lymphoma patients who had a PET scan performed after their chemotherapy....Read more
2015 04 Nov
Divided into two parallel sessions over 2 days, topics include radiation protection issues in molecular imaging and radiotherapy, clinical hybrid imaging in oncology, primers for the non-specialist, emergency radiology—advances in trauma imaging and essentials for the radiology trainee. Our Annual Congress provides an open and relaxed environment...Read more
2015 01 Feb
Based on an international study, some older women with breast cancer could safely avoid radiotherapy, without harming their chances of survival. Researchers found that older women with early breast cancer who were given breast-conserving surgery and hormone therapy gained very modest benefit from radiotherapy. These findings suggest that a carefully...Read more
2014 24 Nov
Researchers from Loyola University Health System (LUHS) have found that pelvic radiotherapy (RT) may help treat a rare form of ovarian cancer that can recur in women after surgery and chemotherapy. The study examined 56 patients with ovarian clear cell adenocarcinoma (CCA), an aggressive form of ovarian cancer that is more likely to be resistant to...Read more
2014 04 Nov
Radiotherapy of the long bones (RTLB) is meant to provide control of symptoms, destroy cancer cells in the treated area and prevent malignant disease-related fractures. Bone radiotherapy is also a useful means of halting tumour proliferation and then triggering osteoblastic activity with osteoproliferation. Bone recalcification after RTLB has been observed...Read more
2014 06 Oct
Using immunotherapy and radiotherapy simultaneously to treat cancers could prevent some patients from becoming resistant to treatment, according to researchers from The University of Manchester (England, UK). Combining the two therapies enabled the immune system to hunt down and destroy cancer cells that were not killed by the initial radiotherapy in...Read more
2014 15 Sep
The BIR, in partnership with Bayer HealthCare, has launched a new award called the BIR/Bayer “Make it Better” service award. The award will be given to the group of people who have demonstrated the best improvement in an aspect of service delivery by making it more effective, or have improved patient experience. This might be an innovative design...Read more
2014 22 Jan
Varian Medical Systems of Palo Alto, California, the world's leading manufacturer of medical devices and software for treating cancer and other medical conditions with radiotherapy, radiosurgery and brachytherapy, has received US FDA 510(k) clearance for its updated ProBeam proton therapy system. Varian's ProBeam system gives clinicians options...Read more
2013 08 Mar
ECR delegates will be advised on how best to cooperate with nuclear medicine physicians and radiation oncologists in order to improve imaging and radiotherapy outcomes during today’s Special Focus Session, ‘Imaging and radiotherapy: all you need to know’. Prof. Regina Beets-Tan (pictured above), oncologic and abdominal radiologist from Maastricht...Read more