Cayuga Health announced today that it has added a new LINAC – medical linear accelerator - machine to treat cancer by using high energy radiation to conform to a tumor’s shape while protecting ...

BOSTON — On a recent Wednesday morning at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a team of two radiation therapists, a radiation oncologist, and a physicist sat glued to a screen filled with black-and-white ...

Radiotherapy patients in the North East are set to benefit from faster treatment thanks to new technology in the pipeline. Upgrades to linear accelerator (LINAC) machines are underway at The James ...

Linear accelerator (linac) commissioning makes certain that treatment machines used for delivering high-energy X-rays for radiotherapy are fully functional and ready for clinical use. Until the ...

Local MP Paul Scully has volunteered to be scanned as part of research to help develop a revolutionary new type of radiotherapy machine. He is one of the first healthy volunteers to be scanned as part ...

It was good news. A November 26 report said: “There is hope for cancer patients at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi Araba, as its Linear Accelerator (LINAC) machine will soon be ...