Smith-Bindman and like-minded colleagues have long pushed for federal policies aimed at improving safety for patients ...

Under new federal rules, doctors and imaging centers have to more closely track and report the doses of radiation that ...

A cohort study of over 40,000 patients suggests that levels should be monitored for at least three months — longer than commonly practiced ...

After surgical removal of the prostate to treat prostate cancer, clinicians monitor Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) levels.

We think that PORTOS could be used to help guide radiation dose-escalation and de-escalation in both the post-operative and definitive settings,” said Shuang (George) Zhao, MD.

Bindman, a professor at the University of California-San Francisco medical school, has spent well over a decade researching ...

Radiotherapy to the head and neck causes temporary (or acute ... EHNS- ESMO-ESTRO Clinical Practice Guidelines for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up. Annals of Oncology, 2020. Volume 31, Issue 11, ...

Patients with nasopharyngeal cancer who received morning radiotherapy survived longer than those treated later in the day. Researchers observed no difference in treatment-related adverse effects ...

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Computed tomography (CT) imaging poses challenges for delineation of soft tissue structures for prostate cancer external beam radiotherapy. Guidelines require the input of magnetic resonance imaging ...

As the UK’s first clinical professor of AI in radiotherapy, Professor Raj Jena talks to Helen Quinn about the impact of artificial intelligence and deep learning tools on radiotherapy and patient care ...