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Increasing lung SBRT accuracy with Elekta’s Active Breathing Coordinator Radiotherapy

Increasing lung SBRT accuracy with Elekta’s Active Breathing Coordinator

Sep 27, 2021 3 minute read
Making the machines to deliver state of the art cancer treatment for patients across the globe Leadership Perspectives

Making the machines to deliver state of the art cancer treatment for patients across the globe

Sep 20, 2021 3 minute read
Leaving cervical cancer nowhere to hide Brachytherapy

Leaving cervical cancer nowhere to hide

Sep 16, 2021 2 minute read

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Increasing lung SBRT accuracy with Elekta’s Active Breathing Coordinator Radiotherapy

Increasing lung SBRT accuracy with Elekta’s Active Breathing Coordinator

In a new case study, the team at Sichuan Cancer Hospital Radiotherapy Center describes how they apply the moderate deep inspiration breath-hold (mDIBH) technique using…

Sep 27, 2021 3 minute read
Leaving cervical cancer nowhere to hide More from Elekta

Leaving cervical cancer nowhere to hide

Suryavathi Kanda, 39, and her family, consisting of her husband and now young adult children, run a small dairy business in Andhra Pradesh, India. It…

Sep 16, 2021 2 minute read
Oklahoma Cancer Specialists and Research Institute unlocks powerful insights to improve patient care and productivity Oncology Informatics

Oklahoma Cancer Specialists and Research Institute unlocks powerful insights to improve patient care and productivity

Access to data analytics has the power to improve patient care, productivity and reduce costs. But for many radiation oncology centers, gathering the data and…

Sep 10, 2021 5 minute read
Debbie practices mind over matter to overcome melanoma  Stereotactic Radiosurgery

Debbie practices mind over matter to overcome melanoma 

Deborah (Debbie) Butler, from Caloundra, Australia – near Brisbane – doesn’t get upset over things she can’t change, even when those things happen to be…

Aug 23, 2021 2 minute read
Focus on quality and patient experience are key elements of Gamma Knife program success Stereotactic Radiosurgery

Focus on quality and patient experience are key elements of Gamma Knife program success

The foundation of Kettering Health’s Gamma Knife program is built on four key pillars, according to Anthony Paravati, MD, the center’s director of stereotactic radiation…

Aug 20, 2021 3 minute read
Advanced service technology keeps busy Spanish radiotherapy department up and running Elekta Care

Advanced service technology keeps busy Spanish radiotherapy department up and running

The founding of Hospital Provincial de Castellón dates back to 1394, a year in which clinicians likely had difficulties treating even the simplest maladies, let…

Aug 16, 2021 5 minute read
Edmilson’s cancer was successfully treated with a therapy he’d never heard of before Radiotherapy

Edmilson’s cancer was successfully treated with a therapy he’d never heard of before

You’ll often find Edmilson tending to his garden in the lush surroundings of his São Paulo home. It’s his pride and joy. Indeed, he deserves…

Aug 10, 2021 2 minute read
Australian cervical cancer patients benefit from clinic’s latest Elekta GYN applicator Brachytherapy

Australian cervical cancer patients benefit from clinic’s latest Elekta GYN applicator

Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness and Research Centre (ONJ, Melbourne, Victoria) clinicians began using their new Geneva™ Universal Gynecological Applicator in October 2020 and in a…

Aug 9, 2021 5 minute read
Austrian physicists save time and increase efficiency with Elekta QA solutions Radiotherapy

Austrian physicists save time and increase efficiency with Elekta QA solutions

The Institute for Radiation Oncology at the Klagenfurt am Wörthersee Clinic in Austria is a growing and thriving radiotherapy department. Not only have they updated…

Aug 4, 2021 6 minute read
Optimizing needle insertion with CT guidance during GYN brachytherapy Brachytherapy

Optimizing needle insertion with CT guidance during GYN brachytherapy

Using CT to guide and plan intracavitary/interstitial brachytherapy for patients with cervical cancer is an attractive option for centers with limited 3D imaging options for…

Jun 16, 2021 7 minute read
Beirut hospital to offer more advanced cancer treatment with linac upgrade Citizenship

Beirut hospital to offer more advanced cancer treatment with linac upgrade

Lebanon’s capital, Beirut, has perhaps suffered more than other cities during the Covid-19 pandemic. In August 2020, an explosion in the city’s harbor left over…

Jun 11, 2021 2 minute read
Despite pandemic, Singapore hospital reaches clinical go live earlier than expected Radiotherapy

Despite pandemic, Singapore hospital reaches clinical go live earlier than expected

In February 2020, Gleneagles Hospital in Singapore took delivery of their new Versa HD™ linear accelerator (linac), complete with HexaPOD™ evo RT system for precise…

Jun 10, 2021 5 minute read
MR-guided radiotherapy a new non-invasive option for bladder cancer patients in Australia MR/RT

MR-guided radiotherapy a new non-invasive option for bladder cancer patients in Australia

The bladder can change in position, shape and size during radiotherapy treatment sessions depending on the organ’s filling rate. This has required clinicians using a…

Jun 2, 2021 3 minute read
Clinic’s new GYN applicator boosts cervical cancer brachytherapy capabilities Brachytherapy

Clinic’s new GYN applicator boosts cervical cancer brachytherapy capabilities

Clinicians at Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC, Leiden, The Netherlands) recently began using their new Geneva applicator for patients with cervical cancer up to stage…

May 25, 2021 7 minute read
Leeds Cancer Centre linac replacement program scores 10 new Elekta systems in seven years Radiotherapy

Leeds Cancer Centre linac replacement program scores 10 new Elekta systems in seven years

A 15-year-old partnership between St. James’s Oncology SPC Ltd., the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Elekta and MES provider Medipass Healthcare has allowed St. James’s…

May 13, 2021 6 minute read
Enhanced proton therapy planning with Monaco Radiotherapy

Enhanced proton therapy planning with Monaco

Elekta’s treatment planning system, Monaco®, is well known for its powerful tools that bring increased automation, intelligent workflows, and high-quality treatment planning to a wide…

May 10, 2021 4 minute read
Pandemic puts focus on hypofractionated radiotherapy in Colombia Radiotherapy

Pandemic puts focus on hypofractionated radiotherapy in Colombia

While many Colombian cancer patients experienced long delays in their radiotherapy treatment for prostate and breast cancer due to Covid-19 restrictions, the pandemic has encouraged…

Apr 30, 2021 3 minute read
20-minute single-fraction lung treatment to ease surgical workload during pandemic Radiotherapy

20-minute single-fraction lung treatment to ease surgical workload during pandemic

In this case study, a newly adopted ultra-hypofractionation scheme was used to treat a male patient diagnosed with early-stage squamous cell carcinoma of the right…

Apr 22, 2021 2 minute read
Elekta radiation therapy system brings hope to cancer patients in China’s Zhejiang province Radiotherapy

Elekta radiation therapy system brings hope to cancer patients in China’s Zhejiang province

Elekta Infinity gives clinicians the technology to deliver precision radiation medicine. June 2020 saw a new dawn of hope and better cancer treatments for patients…

Apr 14, 2021 3 minute read
Reducing toxicity and improving patient comfort with VMAT TBI Radiotherapy

Reducing toxicity and improving patient comfort with VMAT TBI

In two Elekta case studies, Dr. C.P. Bhatt from the Sarvodaya Cancer Institute in India and Dr. I.F. Durmuş from Yeni Yuzyil University Gaziosmanpasa Hospital…

Apr 13, 2021 5 minute read
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