When planning for palliative radiotherapy, clinicians can forgo an additional CT scan on the same day as treatment and instead use a recent diagnostic CT scan, according to a results from a randomized ...

The effect of urologic oncology fellowship training on type and yield of prostate biopsy. Background: Salvage radiotherapy (SRT) for prostate cancer (PCa) biochemical recurrence (BCR) after radical ...

Currently, to facilitate upright radiotherapy treatments, a CT scan of the patient must be acquired in an upright position. Once obtained via an upright CT scanner, a patient positioner places the ...

Automated radiotherapy planning is a boon for medical physicists and dosimetrists, radiotherapy departments, and patients themselves – according to a team at Cone Health Cancer Center. A customized, ...

Designed specifically for use in radiation oncology, new Spectral CT 7500 RT enables personalized radiation therapy planning to deliver better care for more cancer patients Spectral CT 7500 RT ...

Needle-phobic patients and those with “difficult veins” or whose veins have been affected by chemotherapy should now find ...

Implementing Deep Inspiration Breath-Hold (DIBH) for Left-Sided Breast Cancer Radiotherapy at the Anbar Cancer Center, Iraq: ...

Computed tomography -- also known as computed axial tomography, a CT scan, or a CAT scan -- is a tool doctors use to diagnose many types of health problems. Special X-ray equipment creates images of ...