Cancer information Exchange: Diagnostic, therapy and Surgery articles.
Advances in 3D print technologies and the development of easy-to-use computer-aided design solutions during the past two decades has provided a positive impact on the manufacturing of parts and components in the healthcare industry. The new 3D print technology enables health professionals to make………….Read more
Not all tumours are solid. Mesothelioma, for example, is a cancer that grows in the mesothelium – the membrane surrounding the lungs. The spread of mesothelioma makes it difficult to target this cancer with a radiation beam without causing unwanted damage to the lungs and other vital healthy tissues. For Read more…
Non-thermal irreversible electroporation (NTIRE) for cancer therapy is a technique introduced by Davalos and Rubinsky1,2 in 2005. The emphasis was on the term, ‘non-thermal’, because membrane electroporation was used to kill cancer cells while protecting lethal heating effects to nearby critical tissue structures. Possible reasons on how the use Read more…
Having spent over 50 years of work providing healthcare for cancer patients, I suddenly found myself on the receiving end. Unexpected cancer had thrust me into emergency surgery. It required some immediate skilled surgical and nurse expertise to treat and take me back on the road to recovery. Read more……. Read more…
An electronic portal imaging device (EPID) is routinely fitted as a radiotherapy linear accelerator accessory. The EPID can be used to verify the multi-leaf collimator (MLC) leaf positions and other quality assurance (QA) type tasks. EPID-based MLC has been extensively studied for position error detection of large fields and using Read more…
The success of Stereotactic Radiation Surgery (SRS) and Stereotactic Ablative Body Radiation Therapy (SABR) techniques depends critically on having an adequate collection and algorithmic handling of the image data describing the patient body and organ motion. …Read more…….
Breathing causes organs to move How do you treat a moving target with an X-ray beam? Especially when it is a lung tumour moving while the patient breathes? Often the treatment targets are small and the planned dose distributions have steep gradients with potentially very high doses delivered in a small Read more…
Cancer Council Australia lists lung cancer as one of the five most commonly diagnosed cancers. It has the poorest 5-year survival cure rate in the group, of 17%. Whether it be by chemotherapy, surgery, or radiotherapy, there are medical and technical difficulties in treating lung cancer patients……. Read More
Breaking News When prostate cancer spreads throughout the body, and particularly to the bones, it is far more difficult to treat. Australian clinicians and researchers, with the assistance and fundraising efforts of ANZUP, the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia and Movember, are at the forefront of using a precision pharmaceutical Read more…
Cancer treatment typically involves systemic therapy such as chemotherapy, targeted therapy or immunotherapy, in combination with a local therapy. Local therapy such as surgery, radiation therapy or other energy ablation treatment options are used. For small tumours, stereotactic ablative body radiotherapy (SABR) is an emerging standard of care. SABR is a non-invasive Read more…
