April 9, 2010 — In its latest effort to reduce the risks of medical radiation, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) yesterday notified manufacturers of radiotherapy equipment such as linear ...

This international Delphi study, led by the European Society of Radiation Oncology as part of their Value-Based Radiation Oncology programme, brought together key experts from the radiation oncology ...

Quality management (QM) is ‘the coordinated activities to direct and control radiotherapy procedures with regard to quality. The main aim of quality in radiotherapy is safe and effective treatment. In ...

Radiotherapy is a cornerstone of cancer management worldwide. However, significant disparities exist in delivering effective, high-quality radiotherapy to ...

WIth older-generation radiotherapy machines, each treatment session typically lasts about 10 minutes. With the new systems, ...

Elche University General Hospital introduces intraoperative radiotherapy using a robotic linear accelerator, becoming the first hospital in the province to offer the advanced cancer treatment.

Between 1999 and 2009 in the United Kingdom, 82,429 men between 50 and 69 years of age received a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test. Localized prostate cancer was diagnosed in 2664 men. Of these ...