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Carestream signs French distributor
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Carestream Health has signed a distribution agreement with radiography and bone densitometry equipment manufacturer Apelem of Nîmes, France.
July 15, 2010
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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Thoracic and abdominal aortic aneurysms often coexist
By Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Jul 14 - More than a quarter of patients with abdominal aortic aneurysms also have thoracic aortic aneurysms, and the proportion is twice as high in women, Swedish researchers report in the Annals of Surgery.
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
CO2 volumes higher than previous reports in VC
By Eric Barnes
Using more CO2 to insufflate the colon during virtual colonoscopy doesn't produce better distention, but patients with ileocecal valve incompetence -- most patients presenting for screening -- require more insufflation, say researchers from Ireland.
July 5, 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
PET/CT beats CT in NSCLC staging, but both have limitations
By Wayne Forrest
While no imaging or invasive procedure is foolproof for staging non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), Danish researchers have found that PET/CT is more accurate than CT alone, though both modalities had a tendency to understage and overstage the cancer.
July 1, 2010
Rising health costs squeeze national budgets
By Reuters Health
LONDON (Reuters), Jul 1 - Spending on healthcare in OECD countries is rising faster than economic growth, piling pressure on budgets already hit by the 2008-2009 recession, according to data published on Tuesday.
June 30, 2010
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