IOeRT

Pictured during a training session on the new SIT treatment planning system at Vertec Scientific’s headquarters are (standing) radiotherapy product specialists Gavin Adcock and David White with managing director Bill Hipgrave and SIT executive vice president Francesco Zanetti. SIT’s intraoperative electron radiotherapy (IOeRT) treatment planning system will be launched in the UK this month. Vertec […]

Recent developments featuring miniature linear accelerators to deliver large radiation doses directly to the target have helped make treatment more accurate, faster and more adaptable. The American Society for Radiation Oncology says that intraoperative electron radiation therapy (IOeRT) can be used in clinical practice for the suitable group of breast cancer patients (low risk) as […]