Integris Bass Baptist Health Center soon will have a better way to help treat cancer patients. The hospital is in the process of constructing a new Varian Medical System’s Clinac iX linear accelerator ...

STANFORD (CBS SF) -- The Stanford Cancer Institute will soon be the first hospital in the nation to use a new technology intended to reduce the number of radiation treatments for cancer patients.

HAYWARD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--RefleXion Medical, a therapeutic oncology company pioneering the use of biology-guided radiotherapy (BgRT)* to treat all stages of cancer today announced it has ...

IMRT is an advanced mode of high precision radiation therapy that uses a complex computer program to optimize the treatment plan based on a physician's dose instructions, and information about tumor ...

Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy is an advanced mode of high precision radiation therapy that uses computer controlled X-ray equipment (linear accelerator) and a multileaf collimator to deliver ...

St. James Healthcare is in the process of installing a new linear accelerator in the hospital's new Cancer Center. According to Director of Radiology and Radiation Oncology Kristi George, the ...

A new linear accelerator for calibrating the energy doses delivered during radiotherapy has been unveiled at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in the UK. Costing £1.5m, the new accelerator (or ...