Radiation Oncology and Nuclear Medicine including Theranostics
Counting the cost of brain radiotherapy
Radiation therapy (RT) using high-energy particles, like x-rays or electron beams, is a common and…
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Australian experts concerned men with prostate cancer not informed of all treatment options
Cancer experts and patient advocacy groups are using Men’s Health Week 2017 (12-18 June) to highlight…
Explainer: what is cancer radiotherapy and why do we need proton beam therapy?
Paul Keall, University of Sydney In last night’s federal budget, the government dedicated up to…
Breast-conserving surgery safer thanks to magnetic MaMaLoc technology
The Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek Hospital in Amsterdam and the University of Twente have developed a…
Watching movies can replace general anesthesia for kids having radiotherapy
Children with cancer could be spared dozens of doses of general anaesthesia by projecting a…
Cervical cancer survivors suffer from fatigue, insomnia and hot flushes
Around half of women who have been treated for locally advanced cervical cancer suffer from…
Preserving fertility in young male cancer patients
Adult men can have their sperm frozen before undergoing radiation or chemotherapy, both of which…
Clinical trial shows benefit of yoga for side effects of prostate cancer treatment
Men who attended a structured yoga class twice a week during prostate cancer radiation treatment…
SNMMI publishes appropriate use criteria for bone scintigraphy in prostate and breast cancer
The US Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) has published appropriate use criteria (AUC)…
AACR 2017: Many childhood cancer survivors carry mutations in cancer risk genes, raising chance of later disease
Whole-genome sequencing conducted on a large cohort of childhood cancer survivors indicated that many survivors…