Keywords: Radiation Therapy
01/25/2010
Italy’s first proton therapy centre
Agenzia Provinciale Per la Protonterapia (ATreP) has signed a contract with Ion Beam Applications S.A. (IBA), based in Luvain-La-Neuve, Belgium, for the installation of a proton …
12/14/2009
Tumors under fire
Oncologists have a dream: they want to use highly energetic ion beams in good quality and accurately defined dose for a pin-sharp and cost-effective radiation treatment of tumors. …
12/02/2009
Breast cancer research funding to establish
Scientists are closer to discovering why some people respond to breast cancer radiotherapy better than others, according to Breast Cancer Campaign. Dr Laura Smith, at the Leeds …
11/12/2009
Hepatocellular carcinoma
Cases of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), one of the most frequently occurring cancers throughout the world, are expected to increase dramatically in the next 10-15 years in …
11/03/2009
Eröffnung des Heidelberger Ionenstrahl-Therapiezentrums (HIT)
Am 2. November wurde das Heidelberger Ionenstrahl-Therapiezentrum (HIT) feierlich eröffnet. Die am GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt entwickelte …
11/02/2009
Hologic to Feature MammoSite ML Radiation Therapy System
Hologic is using the annual meeting of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO) at McCormick Place in Chicago, November 1 through 5, 2009, to feature …
09/01/2009
Berlins treatment centres
Founded and managed by Prof Peter Schlag, the Charité Comprehensive Cancer Centre (CCCC) co-ordinates cancer diagnostics and therapies across all medical disciplines. …
09/01/2009
Dose reduction in coronary CT angiography
Several health insurers now flag patients who have either exceeded a radiation dose threshold or have had over five CT examinations to the most vulnerable body areas. …
07/01/2009
Intra-operative radiotherapy advances
Intra-operative radiotherapy (IORT) using the Intrabeam system from Carl Zeiss has been confirmed as a new alternative to the current approach to radiotherapy for breast cancer, …
05/01/2009
Austrias ground-breaking ion-therapy and research centre
Not long after the first earth was moved on a site in Wiener Neustadt (Viennas Newtown), in the County of Lower Austria, and tests were carried out to ensure the long-term …
05/01/2009
Breast brachytherapy
Studies show promise for fast, 5-day therapy for early-stage breast cancer patients …
04/29/2009
Medizinische Diagnose per Kernspin-Tomografie gefährdet
Künftig könnten weniger Patienten als bisher von den Diagnosemöglichkeiten der Kernspin-Tomografie, die auch Magnetresonanz-Tomografie (MRT) genannt wird, profitieren. Dies …
03/01/2009
Biomarkers: What can they tell us?
Biomarkers are biochemical features or facets that can be used to measure the progress of disease or the effects of treatment. …
03/01/2009
Prostate Cancer Screening
To date, there is insufficient knowledge as to the cause of this disease, or how to prevent it. We asked some of our EH correspondents to report on measures taken in their …
01/22/2009
A free-to-download spectrum generator
The Institute of Cancer Research in London, UK, offers a new research tool for calculating emission spectra from X-ray systems on their website. The SpekCalc computer programm is …
12/01/2008
Brachytherapy: Better cosmetic outcomes
Women with early-stage breast cancer who have undergone breast augmentation may be treated successfully with a partial-breast radiation treatment called brachytherapy, according …
11/01/2008
Radiation: How dangerous is it really?
Radiation cant be seen or felt; it has no smell and our senses cant feel it still it can cause great harm. Therefore, many fears are associated with radiation. …
10/28/2008
Aggressive Formen des Mammakarzinoms gezielt behandeln
Neue Untersuchungsmethoden ermöglichen es dem Pathologen, besonders aggressive und gefährliche Vertreter des Mammakarzinoms zu erkennen. Das Ziel sind individualisierte …
09/18/2008
Behandlung kann wiederholt werden
Lange Zeit galt: Eine Strahlentherapie - fester Bestandteil der Behandlung vieler Krebsleiden - kann nicht wiederholt werden. Dieser generelle Ausschluss ist nach …
08/26/2008
Good prospects for drug/radiation combo
It was a mistery: Why didn't drugs which boost the tumor-killing power of immune cells in lab do well in clincal trials? Now researchers from Rockefeller University describe a way …
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