Proton RT for Prostate Cancer Has Reduced Toxicity, Higher Cost vs Other RT Options – Modern Medicine Network

by Dave Levitan, Prostate Cancer, Genitourinary Cancers First published Mar 26, 2018 View original article here Proton radiation therapy offers some reduced toxicity over intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) in patients under the age of 65 with prostate cancer, but its cost is nearly twice that of IMRT, according to a new analysis. Stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) […]

Dosimetric comparison to the heart and cardiac substructure in a large cohort of esophageal cancer patients treated with proton beam therapy or Intensity-modulated radiation therapy

Dosimetric comparison to the heart and cardiac substructure in a large cohort of esophageal cancer patients treated with proton beam therapy or Intensity-modulated radiation therapy. Author information  Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, United States; Department of Radiology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. Abstract PURPOSE: To […]

Feedback PLC – Collaboration with the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA

Feedback plc (FDBK), the medical imaging software company, is pleased to announce that it has signed a research agreement with The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, USA, to investigate the potential future clinical application of Feedback’s TexRAD texture analysis software on computed tomography (CT) image data of patients with kidney […]