In the past two years, the percentage of sites offering image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) treatment options to patients has more than doubled, from 15% of the radiation therapy service sites in the U.S. to more than 33% in 2006, according to data in a study released by market research and consulting firm IMV Medical Information Division.
In other IMV study results, patients made an estimated 23.2 million radiation therapy or related visits in the U.S., including 19 million treatment visits and 4.2 million allied visits. The top three cancer types include breast, prostate, and lung cancer, which account for 21%, 20%, and 12%, respectively, of all cancer site types treated using radiation therapy, according to the Des Plaines, IL-based firm.
On the IT front, approximately 90% of the surveyed radiation therapy sites use networks for sharing images used in treatment planning, while 85% of the sites indicated that they have "record and verify/information management" systems installed, IMV said.
The data, released as IMV's "2006 Radiation Oncology Market Summary Report," also found that the percentage of sites having budgets of $1.5 million or greater has increased from 15% of 2003 capital budgets to 33% of 2007 budgets. In addition, the company reported that CT simulators comprised over 80% of the simulators installed in 2006.
More information about the report is available via the IMV Web site.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
April 4, 2007
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