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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. A growing body of research, however, points to an additional role for definitive local therapy to all disease sites, aiming at durable tumor control and improved survival outcomes.

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Koneksa Announces Study with New York Proton Center to Collect Patient-Generated Health Data During Proton Radiotherapy in Lung Cancer

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a professor in Radiation Oncology at the Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center , aims to demonstrate the feasibility of PGHD collection during proton beam radiotherapy for lung cancer. These adverse events often lead to hospitalizations and treatment interruptions that can reduce treatment efficacy.

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The rise of theranostics: Part 3 -- What is a theranostics center?

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Eliot Siegel, MD; Stanislav Spiridonov, MD; Nathan Gee, MD; and Anthony Chang, PhD, are among a niche gathering of early adopters, entrepreneurial physicians, medical physicists, and investors with a sweet spot for nuclear medicine, diagnostic radiology, and radiation oncology. That's the power we can achieve," Chang said. "We

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5 Recommendations to Achieve Excellence in Pediatric Medical Imaging

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With advance planning and an emphasis on learning, your facility can perform imaging studies with the same standard of care as a large children’s hospital. With advance planning and an emphasis on learning, your facility can perform imaging studies with the same standard of care as a large children’s hospital.

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GE HealthCare Closes MIM Software Acquisition

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These new capabilities align with our precision care strategy to personalize care, enhance hospital efficiency and clinician effectiveness, and appeal to new and existing GE HealthCare and MIM Software users who see this as an opportunity to better serve patients and help improve outcomes." Oncotarget. 2017 Jun 8;8(37):62742-62758.

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PET/CT radiomics predicts outcomes in women with cervical cancer

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Finally, in a cohort of 23 patients from another hospital, the nomogram predicted 3-year progression-free survival (PFS) in patients with LACC with an area under the operating curve (AUC) of 76% and 5-year PFS with an AUC of 68%, according to the findings. “We

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PET Scans Reveal ‘smoldering’ Inflammation in patients with Multiple sclerosis

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Our therapies are excellent in that we’ve definitely improved MS patients’ lives,” Bakshi said. The authors note that PET scans can also be expensive and expose patients to some level of radiation, whereas MRIs do not. There’s no doubt about that, but we’re still not at the finish line.”

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