AccuBoost boosts customer base

AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Nov 24, 2013

Women's health firm AccuBoost has added a Nevada client to its customer list.

Northern Nevada Radiation Oncology of Reno, NV, will install the AccuBoost noninvasive partial-breast irradiation system in December.

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ASTRO: Shorter radiation course safe for breast reconstruction

By Amerigo Allegretto

Research presented at the ASTRO annual meeting shows that a shorter course of postmastectomy radiation combined with breast reconstruction is safe.

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ASTRO: Timing key to adding immunotherapy to chemoradiation

By Amerigo Allegretto

Timing may be key when adding immunotherapy to chemoradiation for lung cancer treatment.

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Spiritual beliefs and a distrust of clinical research may partly explain why Black patients choose not to participate in cancer trials.

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Intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and proton therapy offer equally high quality of life and tumor control for people with prostate cancer.

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ASTRO: Lu-177 dotatate shows promise for treating meningioma patients

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A radiopharmaceutical therapy that lengthens progression-free survival for patients with neuroendocrine cancer could help treat meningioma sufferers.

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Patients with brain metastases who experience cognitive side effects after radiation therapy appear to eventually regain cognitive function.

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Nuclear medicine technologist and theranostics practice administrator Dmitry Beyder (left) and Vikas Prasad, MD, PhD (right), lead the theranostics center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University in Saint Louis, MO. Image courtesy of Washington University.

Risk factor for blood disorders identified in PRRT patients

Researchers have identified a risk factor that may be involved in potentially fatal blood disorders in patients undergoing peptide receptor radionuclide therapy (PRRT).

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ASTRO chair responds to proposed cuts in 2024 MPFS

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ASTRO has issued a statement from Jeff Michalski, MD, in response to continued reimbursement declines in the proposed 2025 MPFS.

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