A 45-year-old woman is found to have invasive breast cancer and undergoes lumpectomy with dissection of the sentinel lymph nodes. After 6 months of adjuvant chemotherapy, radiation therapy is recom ...

Stereotactic body radiation therapy distinguishes itself from other techniques of radiotherapy in its requirements of more rigid patient immobilization, respiratory motion control, sophisticated ...

CORALVILLE, Iowa, April 18, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- CIVCO Radiotherapy, the leading global provider of high quality, innovative, patient-centric radiotherapy solutions, will present their Universal ...

Radiation therapy involves directing strong beams of energy to kill cancer cells. Patient immobilization is another key aspect to reducing toxicity from radiation.

Nanor, a thermoplastic material enhanced with nanoparticles, has been developed to precisely immobilize patients during cancer treatment using radiation therapy. Limiting the movement of the patient ...

Such data can help identify a patient who may require different immobilization due to set-up difficulties. “In this limited cohort, we found opportunities to improve treatment delivery for individual ...

With darting red and green beams above me and large mechanical eyes and grids humming and moving around me, I feel as though I’m in a 1950s sci-fi movie.

While data is promising, many questions remain about topics such as timing and doses in the treatment of hematologic malignancies.

Increasingly, though, oncologists are trying to use less radiation, long one of the main pillars of cancer therapy. In some cases, they are even keeping certain patients with low-risk tumors off ...