Varian, in partnership with the Danish Centre for Particle Therapy (DCPT) at Aarhus University Hospital and the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital/UC Health Proton Therapy Center—two members of the FlashForward™ Consortium—has tested a specialized dose monito...
Más informaciónAs many facilities move back towards normal operations after COVID restrictions, Professor Pat Price, a leading expert on radiation oncology, discusses what that means for adaptive radiotherapy.
Más informaciónThe Royal Surrey County Hospital comprises two sites about 20 miles apart in the county of Surrey, UK. Across the two sites, radiotherapy clinicians treat about 3,500 patients a year, typically with IMRT or RapidArc® radiotherapy, including stereotactic a...
Más informaciónHenry Ford Allegiance (HFA) is a community-based hospital about 60 miles west of the main Henry Ford Health System campus. Its HFCI radiation oncology clinic treats approximately 450 patients a year, with more than 9,000 external beam treatments delivered...
Más informaciónThe Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney, Australia, also deployed its Ethos™ therapy system about a year ago. Royal North Shore is a small, state-funded facility that treats about 1,500 cancer patients a year and its head of medical physics, Assistant P...
Más informaciónIcon Group operates 30 cancer centers in Australia, one in New Zealand, six in Singapore, four in Mainland China, and two in Hong Kong, with several in development across their international network.
Más informaciónQueens Hospital treats around 1,200 patients a year and was the first facility in the UK to deploy and start using an Ethos™ therapy system in August 2020, despite being in the midst of the COVID pandemic.
Más informaciónThe use of online adaptive radiotherapy has expanded around the world since Varian introduced Ethos™ therapy at ASTRO in 2019. Through groups such as the Adaptive Intelligence Consortium, research continues to show that adaptive treatment can enable dose ...
Más informaciónSince opening its doors in March 2020, Proton International at UAB—a collaboration between the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Proton International—has been a remarkable success story.
Más informaciónIn May of this year, the Republic of Ireland’s health service became the victim of a ransomware cyberattack. The Health Service Executive (HSE) was forced to shut down all of its IT systems following the attack, significantly disrupting services, includi...
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