Understanding the Global Cancer Care Gap – World Cancer Day
For the last three years, the call-to-action of World Cancer Day — “Close the Care Gap” — has focused on health equity challenges.
Research Underpins Clinical Practice: Take a Look at a Few of the Abstracts Highlighted from ASTRO 2022
At ASTRO 2022 over 1,600 abstracts were accepted, representing all aspects of oncology and radiation therapy for oncologic and non-oncologic conditions. The extensive breadth and depth of abstracts underscores the importance clinicians worldwide place on radiation therapy related research. With a focus on CyberKnife® and TomoTherapy®/Radixact® Treatment Delivery Systems, we have highlighted some abstracts utilizing […]
Making Adaptive Radiotherapy Practical for Mainstream Use
Adaptive radiotherapy (ART) has long been viewed as the inevitable future of radiotherapy. Patients are living, breathing implying dynamic “targets” and tumors that can change significantly over treatment fractions. But in a world where optimizing patient volume is key both from a public health and economic perspective, what does the future of ART look like? […]
Accuray expands personalized breast cancer treatments this Pink October
Last year (2021), breast cancer overtook lung cancer to become the most commonly-diagnosed global cancer. The World Health Organization (WHO) reports breast cancer accounts for 12% of all new annual cancer cases worldwide1. To make that personal, 1 in 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime. And although not common there […]
PACE-B Prostate Cancer Study Demonstrates Reduced Toxicity with CyberKnife® Ultra-Hypofractioned SBRT
Clinical teams around the globe are leveraging the CyberKnife Treatment Delivery System to open up new possibilities in ultra-hypofractionated radiation therapy for prostate cancer patients. Research has already shown that using the CyberKnife System to deliver ultra-hypofractionated stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) can achieve excellent cancer control — with survival rates, toxicity and incidences of side […]
3 Ways Artificial Intelligence (AI) Will Enable Greater Emotional Intelligence (EI) in Cancer Care
We love the theme for ASTRO 2022: “AI & EI: Caring for the patient in a wireless world.” Here at Accuray, we’ve been talking about AI a lot lately — we are excited to share with you our ebook that helps to guide you through it promising potential, remaining barriers, and the exciting path forward for […]
