Radiation Oncology/Therapy: Page 100

IBA to build proton center in Poland
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Radiopharmaceutical firm Ion Beam Applications has won a contract to build a proton therapy center in Krakow, Poland.
August 1, 2010
Docetaxel with radiation helpful in anaplastic thyroid cancer
By Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Aug 2 - Patients with rare but aggressive anaplastic thyroid carcinomas responded extremely well to radiation and concomitant docetaxel in a small case series from Austria.
August 1, 2010
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Cardiac dysfunction common in young adults after childhood cancer
By Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Jul 27 - Young adult survivors of childhood cancer have an "alarmingly" high rate of subclinical cardiac dysfunction, researchers reported July 26 in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
July 26, 2010
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Pre-op radiation affects sexual function in men with rectal cancer
By Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Jul 23 - Sexual dysfunction that develops in men who've had treatment for rectal cancer is mostly due to the surgery -- but preoperative radiation also plays a role, researchers say.
July 22, 2010
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Surgery before radiation not helpful for metastatic spinal cord compression
By Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Jul 20 - The results of decompressive surgery followed by radiotherapy for metastatic spinal cord compression are similar to those obtained with radiotherapy alone, according to a new matched-pair analysis.
July 19, 2010
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Varian gets U.K. RapidArc install
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Radiation therapy firm Varian Medical Systems has won a contract with a cancer center in Scotland for its RapidArc radiotherapy system, the company said.
July 14, 2010
Database identifies radiation therapy toxicities in kids
By Cynthia E. Keen
Since 2004, radiation oncologists in Germany have been submitting information about pediatric radiotherapy treatments to a study trial center database. Now an analysis of acute toxicities from this database of more than 1,000 patients has been recently published in Radiotherapy & Oncology, providing an overview of the pattern of acute toxicities of irradiated organs.
July 14, 2010
U.K. cancer survival rates grow
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Women treated in England and Wales for breast and ovarian cancers are twice as likely to survive for at least 10 years as compared to patients diagnosed and treated in the early 1970s, while long-term survival for men treated for prostate cancer has more than tripled, according to new statistics from Cancer Research UK.
July 13, 2010
Cancer survivors have higher death risk for decades
By Reuters Health
LONDON (Reuters), Jul 14 - People who survive cancer in childhood have a heightened risk of dying of a heart attack, stroke, or another cancer decades later -- a risk that is likely to be due to the original treatment, scientists said on Tuesday.
July 13, 2010
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Radioactive microspheres help some with colorectal cancer metastases
By Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Jul 9 - When metastatic colorectal cancer is confined to the liver, hepatic arterial injection of yttrium-90 resin microspheres can significantly improve response rates, Belgian researchers report.
July 8, 2010
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IBA wins Swedish contract
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Radiopharmaceutical firm Ion Beam Applications has won a contract with a proton therapy center in Sweden.
July 7, 2010
Magnetic systems reduce ablation radiation
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Magnetic navigation systems reduce both procedure times and fluoroscopy radiation exposure for children undergoing catheter ablations, according to a study published in the July 1 issue of the American Journal of Cardiology.
July 1, 2010
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