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Widespread Staff Shortages Exacerbate Pressures Facing Radiation Oncology Clinics; ASTRO Advocacy Day Calls for Action

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milla1cf Tue, 05/23/2023 - 11:36 May 23, 2023 — More than 9 in 10 radiation oncologists report that their practices face clinical staff shortages , according to a new national survey from the American Society for Radiation Oncology ( ASTRO ). Staff shortages affect patient care in multiple ways.

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Dr. Sameer Keole voted President-elect of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO)

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milla1cf Thu, 07/20/2023 - 20:11 July 20, 2023 — The members of the American Society for Radiation Oncology ( ASTRO ) recently elected three new officers to ASTRO’s Board of Directors, including Sameer Keole , MD, FASTRO , as President-elect; Wendy Woodward , MD, PhD, FASTRO, as Science Council Vice Chair; and Vivek S.

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Multi-Institutional Study Data Presented at ASTRO 2023 Builds Upon Growing Evidence of GammaTile for Patients with Brain Tumors

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christine.book Tue, 10/03/2023 - 11:37 October 3, 2023 — Medical device company GT Medical Technologies, Inc. 2 poster presentation at the American Society for Radiation Oncology's (ASTRO) 65th Annual Meeting, ASTRO 2023 , being held this week in San Diego, CA.

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FAPI-PET outperforms FDG-PET in diagnosing pancreatic cancer

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F-18 FAPI-PET/CT is superior to F-18 FDG-PET/CT for diagnosing and staging patients with pancreatic cancer, according to a study published January 4 in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine. In the future, F-18 FAPI-04 PET/CT may play a greater role in the actual clinical management of PDAC,” the group wrote.

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Mayo Clinic and GE HealthCare Enter Strategic Collaboration to Advance Innovation in Medical Imaging and Theranostics

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milla1cf Thu, 09/14/2023 - 15:17 September 14, 2023 — Mayo Clinic and GE HealthCare announce a strategic healthcare collaboration for research and product development programs aimed to transform the experience of patients and clinicians in the practice of radiology and the delivery of novel therapies.

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ASTRO and ESTRO Issue Clinical Guideline on Local Therapy for Oligometastatic Lung Cancer

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The guideline is published in Practical Radiation Oncology. The guideline task force also created algorithms on the optimal clinical scenarios for local therapy and the different types of local therapy available for these patients.

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RefleXion Highlights Clinical Study Results for Future Prostate Cancer Treatment

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milla1cf Mon, 07/03/2023 - 20:06 July 3, 2023 — RefleXion Medical , Inc., professor of the Department of Radiation Oncology and the Department of Immunology and Theranostics at City of Hope , and principal investigator of the RefleXion-supported PyL imaging study.

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