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Used together with RTsafe’s independent remote dosimetry services, it enables a comprehensive verification of complex stereotactic and other high-precision radiotherapy treatments, assessing the entire treatment chain from imaging and planning through patient setup and dose delivery. ...
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GBM is an aggressive, deadly, and treatment-resistant type of malignant brain tumor, affecting approximately 13,000 newly diagnosed patients each year in the United States. Few treatment options are available for patients with GBM, and none have extended life expectancy beyond a few months. ...
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Health Technology Wales (HTW) has published guidance recommending the routine adoption of Extreme Hypofractionated Radiotherapy (EHFRT) for the treatment of localised prostate. In the UK, prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men and in Wales, more than 2,500 men each year are diagnosed with prostate cancer. Radiotherapy is included as ...
“The NDA will be based on the positive and clinically meaningful data from our Phase 3 ROMAN trial and our randomized Phase 2b trial. There are no FDA-approved treatments for radiotherapy-induced SOM, which affects over 40,000 patients with head and neck cancer undergoing radiotherapy in the U.S. alone, and we are enthusiastically working ...
(Nasdaq: GRTX), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing a pipeline of novel, proprietary therapeutics that have the potential to transform radiotherapy in cancer, today announced topline results from the six-week, Phase 2a, open-label, single-arm AESOP trial of avasopasem evaluating its ability to reduce the incidence of severe acute ...
Study Demonstrate Superiority of VeraForm® Marker Over Clips For Tumor Bed Delineation Accuracy San Francisco CA, October 28, 2021- Videra Surgical Inc., the developer of the novel adaptable tumor bed marker VeraForm® for breast cancer surgery, announced the presentation of an independent study at this week’s ASTRO conference in Chicago and the American College of ...
As the pandemic disrupts travel and events, it is vital to remember that cancer treatment is not elective. GammaTile is a one-and-done radiation option for patients with brain tumors that eliminates the need for daily, ongoing radiation treatments. ...
Novocure (NASDAQ: NVCR) today announced it has entered into a clinical trial collaboration agreement with GT Medical Technologies, Inc., to develop Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields) together with GT Medical Technologies’ GammaTile Surgically Targeted Radiation Therapy (STaRT) for treatment of recurrent glioblastoma (GBM). Novocure’s TTFields are electric fields that disrupt cancer cell ...
TAE Life Sciences (TLS), a biologically-targeted radiation therapy company developing a breakthrough, accelerator-based boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) system, today announced that it has entered into an agreement with National Center of Oncological Hadrontherapy (CNAO) to provide its Alphabeam™ Neutron System for the treatment of invasive, recurrent and difficult to treat cancers. ...
Our Medical Director of the Oncology Breast Program, Dr. Beth DuPree, was first in the U.S. to adopt VeraForm, a continuous, radiopaque 3D tissue marker. Within months, its utility led to quick integration into our program’s standard daily practice. Like all centers today, patient satisfaction is a focal point and to date, we have seen no complications or toxicities by any criteria (e.g., ...
NeoTherma Oncology, (NTO) a privately held medical device company developing novel non-invasive treatments for solid tumors, today announces they have submitted an Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) application to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to initiate First-in-Human (FiH) studies of the VectRx™ System in patients with pancreatic cancer being treated with ...
The device can be visualized using MRI, CT or x-ray, and provides a reference from which other procedures can be guided, for example during the treatment of cancer with radiotherapy. Image guidance utilizing fiducial markers is an important option to reduce margins of uncertainty during radiotherapy treatment planning, and for ...
NeoTherma Oncology, (NTO) a privately held medical device company developing novel non-invasive treatments for solid tumors, reported the results of a pre-clinical porcine study that demonstrated the safe and effective heating of the pancreas with a prototype version of its Vectron TTx device. ...
NeoTherma Oncology, (NTO) a privately held medical device company developing novel non-invasive treatments for solid tumors, today announces that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted the company's petition to admit its Vectron TTx treatment for Pancreatic Cancer as Breakthrough Device under FDA's Expedited Access Pathway (EAP). ...
The CSIRO stand, staffed by experts in science, engineering and commercialisation, will feature displays of the following technology: augmented reality visualisation to enable remote delivery of complicated expert services in healthcare, education and controlling equipment over distance self-learning computer vision that identifies expressions and analyses behaviour to aid in the diagnosis of ...