''Radiation therapy for head and neck cancer may cause an injury to the brachial plexus nerve network in as many as 20% of patients, researchers stated here at the American Society of Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO) 51st Annual Meeting. The ...'

''For the first time, researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have reported the use of a radiolabeled antibody to deliver targeted doses of radiation, followed by a stem cell transplant, to successfully treat a group of leukemia and ...'

''People undergoing X-rays often require an intravenous contrast injection to improve the quality of the information obtained. Some of these patients will develop acute kidney injury as a result, and may require dialysis or hospitalisation. New research ...'

''A quick questionnaire administered in a doctor's office can identify people who are at high risk for lung cancer. Results of the study, which were published in the November issue of the Journal of Thoracic Oncology, indicate that the questionnaire is ...'

''Men who receive a 'boost' of proton therapy after receiving a standard course of X-ray radiation therapy have fewer recurrences of their prostate cancer compared to men who did not receive the extra dose of proton radiation, according to a ...'

''Bayer HealthCare presented results from a global Phase II study of florbetaben, its imaging agent in development for the detection of cerebral beta-Amyloid plaques, at the 19th World Congress of Neurology (WCN). The purpose of the Phase II study was ...'

''TomoTherapy Incorporated (NASDAQ: TOMO)announced today that several clinical presentations at the American Society for Radiation Oncology's 51st ASTRO Annual Meeting -- November 1-5, 2009 in Chicago -- will showcase the use of the TomoTherapy® ...'

''A group of seven medical imaging societies have come together to protest a limit CMS imposes on PET scanning for initial patient treatment evaluations. The groups would like to see CMS expand coverage to two FDG PET scans for evaluation, as opposed to ...'

''A report from a team of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) physicians calls into question the longstanding belief that pulmonary embolism (PE) - the life-threatening blockage of a major blood vessel in the lungs - is caused in trauma patients by a ...'

''The potential of laser technology seems inexhaustible. Fresh proof has now been presented by an international team at Munich's Cluster of Excellence 'Munich Centre for Advanced Photonics' (MAP), in the Laboratory for Attosecond Physics (LAP) of ...'