Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Cancer Treatment
Standard medical care is the treatment accepted by medical experts as proper treatment for a certain type of disease and that is widely used by healthcare professionals. For example, the standard...
How Cancer Clinical Trials Have Changed Since COVID-19
The Covid-19 pandemic turned the world upside down in 2020. Arguably, the medical community was one of the hardest hit populations. Everyone from patients to doctors had their lives affected in some...
Obtaining Accurate Body Contour of Obese Patients in Treatment Planning
Obesity in the United States is a common, serious, and costly disease. More than 40% of US adults and 19% of US children ages 2 -17 have obesity and those numbers continue to rise year after year....
Radiation Therapists who EMPOWER
Over the past 2 years, there has been momentous recognition of the heroics of healthcare workers throughout the world – and understandably so. The COVID-19 pandemic brought an unfathomable amount of...
Meet Danna Fullen, Radiation Therapist, EMPOWER Award Recipient
On an average day, healthcare professionals often do more than expected, work longer than required, and care more than most. These past two years have been extraordinary in that the demands made on...
FLASH Radiotherapy, Could it be a Game Changer in Cancer Treatment?
Genome mapping, pacemakers monitored via Bluetooth, and epilepsy drugs printed by 3D printers are some recent medical advancements that you may or may not have heard of. They all seem like something...
Overcoming Dose Perturbation from Skin Markers in 3D Treatment Planning
In the early days of radiation therapy, two-dimensional X-ray images and manual mathematic calculations were utilized to create treatment plans. In the 1970’s, the advent of computerized systems...
Radiation Oncology Leaders Sound Alarm on New CMS Payment Model
When the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) began exploring the concept of an episode-based payment methodology for radiation oncology services in 2014, oncology providers immediately...
Is Targeted Intraoperative Radiotherapy Treatment the Future for Treating Breast Cancer?
As someone whose father has gone through conventionalexternal beam radiotherapy (EBRT), I can tell you that the physical and emotional toll it takes on patients and their caregivers is no easy...
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