How many of us give a “full” dose of chemotherapy to an obese patient—even in the curative setting? Dose calculation in the obese is a confusing but important puzzle for the oncologist and is becoming ...

Predicting Treatment Response of Malignant Gliomas to Bevacizumab and Irinotecan by Imaging Proliferation With [18F] Fluorothymidine Positron Emission Tomography: A Pilot Study A total of 1,206 adult ...

Radiotherapy dose calculation algorithms are essential components of modern treatment planning, ensuring that the prescribed radiation dose conforms as closely as possible to a patient’s tumour while ...

July 2, 2010 (Orlando, Florida) — Children with type 1 diabetes can have their pizza and eat it, too, if they calculate their premeal insulin dose according to carbohydrate, fat, and protein intake ...

Monte Carlo 3D dose-check calculations help clinical physicists maintain confidence in their patient-specific QA for hard-to-treat disease indications Independent viewpoint: given the clinical ...

Next-generation algorithms generate treatment plans in seconds, accelerating plan optimization and dose calculation by up to 70%. Improved dose coverage from dynamic collimator and modulated ports ...

Tree shrew (Tupaia belangeri) is a promising experimental animal in biomedical research, but the equivalent doses of drugs between tree shrew and human and other animals has not been explored, which ...

Erbitux (cetuximab) is a prescription drug that’s used to treat certain types of cancer. The drug comes as a solution that’s given through a vein by a healthcare professional. It’s usually given once ...