1. iCAD: Prostate & Breast MRI Imaging Technologies
(Company News/iCAD, Inc. )

... and workflow solutions for the early identification of cancer, announces upcoming educational initiatives for physicians who diagnose and treat patients with breast and prostate cancers. iCAD has provided ...

2. Denmark's OUH Works to Make Elekta VMAT
(Company News/Elekta Group)

... a patient with prostate cancer. Because Elekta VMAT enables the treatment beam to complete non-stop therapy arcs, clinicians were able to perform the one-arc treatment in a 10-minute session, shaving two ...

3. Royal Marsden Introduces Calypso System to UK
(Company News/Calypso Medical Technologies, Inc.)

... tracking for patients undergoing external beam radiation therapy for prostate cancer. The Calypso System, with its GPS for the Body utilizes miniature implanted Beacon transponders to provide precise, ...

4. MRI-guided Ablation for Prostate Cancer Recurrences
(Communities/MRI)

In prostate cancer patients following radical prostatectomy, magnetic resonance-guided ( MRI - guided) ablation using laser interstitial thermal therapy or cryoablation may be a feasible treatment. The ...

5. Radiation Boosts Doesn't Increase Side Effects
(Modalities/Radiology )

Boosting the radiation dose given to prostate cancer patients to a level that cut tumor recurrence in half did not increase the severity of side effects reported by patients up to a decade later. The ...

6. Highlights of IR Studies at SIR 2010
(Radiology Conferences/SIR 2010)

... Prostate Cancer: Hot and Cold Sides Living Longer With Colon Cancer: Remarkable Results With Heat Painful Spinal Fractures Treating Non-osteoporotic Spinal Fractures: Part 2—Does Treatment Show Any Benefit? ...

7. MRI May Help Identify Prostrate Cancer: AdMeTech
(Communities/MRI)

AdMeTech Hails New Research That Shows Promise of MRI to Discriminate Aggressive Prostate Cancer From Dormant Disease. New preliminary data from a pilot study in the Netherlands indicates that imaging ...

8. French Clinic Adopts Elekta VMAT Radiation Therapy
(Company News/Elekta Group)

... patients, half of which were prostate cancer* cases. With Elekta VMAT, single or multiple radiation beams sweep in uninterrupted arc(s) around the patient, significantly reducing treatment times. VMAT ...

9. Prostrate Cancer: Dietary Supplements Affect Radiation
(Modalities/Radiology )

... ( ASTRO ). Many prostate cancer patients choose to take nutritional supplements to improve or increase sexual potency and alleviate symptoms associated with poor prostate health. Some studies show that ...

10. Radiation Therapy For Prostrte Cancer Varies
(Modalities/Radiology )

Men who visit a radiation oncologist appear more likely to receive radiation therapy for prostate cancer, whereas men who consult with a urologist with or without a medical oncologist are treated more ...

11. Robotic Surgical Technology Helps Surgeons
(Modalities/Radiology )

... intersensory integration, and reports that surgical outcomes for prostate cancer surgery using minimally invasive robotic technology compare favorably with traditional invasive surgery. Led by physician-scientists ...

12. US-HIFU to Fund Prostate Cancer Trial
(Modalities/Radiology )

... multi-center trial to study focal therapy for localized prostate cancer. Mark Emberton, M.D., (FRCS-Urology), consultant urological surgeon and divisional clinical director of cancer services at University ...

13. iCAD: Fourth Quarter & Full Year Reports
(Company News/iCAD, Inc. )

... for CAD to enhance prostate cancer early detection and treatment. Toward that end, we were delighted to partner with AdMeTech, a non-profit organization with a mission to end prostate ...

14. ROC Redefines Efficiency With Elekta VMAT
(Company News/Elekta Group)

... was based primarily on the time efficiency of delivery." The first case was a patient with prostate cancer who had begun as an IMRT patient. "It was a challenge for him to stay comfortable on the table, ...

15. Calypso System Reduces Side Effects of Radiation
(Company News/Calypso Medical Technologies, Inc.)

... for prostate cancer resulted in a significant reduction in rectal and urinary treatment-related side effects. “This is the first comparative study to show that margin reduction in prostate cancer radiation ...

16. Elekta VMAT Rapidly Gaining Users Worldwide
(Company News/Elekta Group)

... numerous posters and presentations on Elekta VMAT studies. Summaries of selected studies: Casa di Cura S. Chiara, Firenze, Italy: VMAT v. IMRT plan comparisons for prostate cancer. Result: Retrospective ...

17. Ultrasound Technology: US HIFU-RRI Tie-up
(Communities/Ultrasound)

... entire gland possible.  This capability will take prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment to an exciting new level. Once the combined technologies are clinically validated, this advanced tissue-typing ...

18. Short-Course Radiotherapy: ASTRO 2010
(Radiology Conferences/ASTRO 2010)

... one of the prostate cancer studies, explained that although recent improvements in radiation delivery techniques made it possible to increase the radiation dose given to cancer patients and to increase ...

19. SNM's FDA Regulations for PET imaging
(Communities/PET)

... in assessing therapeutic agents, specifically the use of bone scans in prostate cancers. "I am happy to participate in this workshop to present the importance of developing surrogate imaging endpoints ...

20. MR-spectroscopy Helps Doctors Pinpoint Prostate Cancer
(Communities/MRI)

... the research is in its early stages, the finding may lead to a better way for doctors to diagnose prostate cancer, they said on Wednesday. A team at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston used magnetic ...