A Minnesota woman was told her stage 4 colon cancer couldn’t be cured. Two years later, she’s cancer-free — and says a last-chance clinical trial gave her back her life.

FRIDAY, Oct. 11, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with glioblastoma imaged daily with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-linear accelerator (linac) throughout the chemoradiation therapy course ...

Patients at KGMU faced delays in receiving radiation therapy due to a malfunction in the linac machine. The issue was quickly addressed by the administration to ensure no patient had to leave ...

Notably, before installation of the linear accelerator, few pediatric patients were being treated with radiotherapy at TASH, attributable to unacceptably high toxicities with 2D techniques and lack of ...

In a heart-warming win for cancer patients, Tygerberg Hospital officially unveiled its new Varian TrueBeam linear accelerator (LINAC) machine.

Unlike conventional Linac systems, which entail separate imaging and radiation delivery processes, this advanced technology integrates the two processes. Traditionally, patients are imaged using ...

SGRT is huge advancement in precision radiotherapy: Debabrata Bhowmick, C-RAD About 60% of the total population of cancer patients in India requires radiotherapy. Do we have enough linear ...

Linac-mounted, cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) imaging systems help with patient setup and treatment volume verification in image guided radiation therapy (IGRT). However, analytic-based ...

Our early learning experience in three real patient cases strongly supports the conclusion that the distance to isocenter directly affects the margin, inappropriate margin increase the risk of local ...