Posts Tagged ‘Cancer’
• Life with Lars Leksell on page 8, written from the perspective of his son, Dan Leksell, Executive Vice President and Senior Advisor at Elekta, provides insight into the history of the company and the man who built it.
• See how a 17-year-old cancer survivor becomes an advocate for teens across the globe – her heartfelt story on page 24.
• On page 34, learn more about the benefits three centers have experienced using MOSAIQ® – Elekta’s EMR solution that’s set the bar by which all other radiation and medical oncology information systems are measured.
• On page 40, we go behind the scene for a glimpse of the development of Elekta’s new Monaco® treatment planning system with VMAT as well as the group behind its development.
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2010 Cancer Registry Users Meeting
Elekta will host its 2010 Cancer Registry Users Meeting Tuesday, April 20 in Palm Springs, California. The premier event for cancer registrars in town for NCRA’s 36th Annual Educational Conference, the meeting is complimentary for customers.
Taking place at the Hilton Palm Springs, the meeting will delve into topics such as new product features and enhancements, as well as what to expect for 2010 Standards in regard to METRIQ v 2.0.
Following the meeting, participants are invited to join Elekta for a customer appreciation party. Featuring live music, dancing and more, the event will be held poolside at the renowned Riviera Resort and Spa from 7-10 p.m. Admission is complimentary for meeting attendees, however registration is required. For those who would like to bring a guest, tickets will be available for $25 per person.
For additional information and to register, visit www.elekta.com/cancerregistry2010
Elekta Axesse™ – Sistema de gestión del tratamiento estereotáctico guiado por imágenes
Elekta ofrece la gama de soluciones de tratamientos estereotácticos más completa del mundo para terapias contra el cáncer y otras afecciones
cerebrales, medulares, así como en otras zonas del cuerpo. El diseño y prestaciones resultantes del sistema reflejan décadas de liderazgo e
innovación*.
Nuestros clientes en los sectores de neurocirugía y oncología radioterápica se enfrentan al problema constante de la rentabilidad de la adopción de los protocolos de tratamiento más avanzados dentro de las restricciones de los recursos disponibles. Elekta Axesse™ ha sido diseñado específicamente para contemplar esta situación y proporcionar la calidad más alta de tratamiento al máximo número de pacientes.
Elekta Axesse
* Elekta desarrolló el campo de la radiocirugía estereotáctica intracraneal (el primer Leksell® Gamma Knife® se presentó en 1968); presentó la radioterapia corporal estereotáctica (Stereotactic Body Frame® presentado en 1991; y fue pionera en la radioterapia de intensidad modulada y la radioterapia guiada por imágenes, Elekta Synergy® en uso clínico desde 2003).
Two hours after brain surgery, I was eating fried chicken and pondering the wonders of modern medicine.
I didn’t even have a headache, which seemed miraculous, given the doctors had drilled four screws into my skull to attach a frame that kept my head still during Gamma Knife surgery.
OK. The word “surgery” is a misnomer. The Gamma Knife doesn’t draw blood and isn’t actually a knife. It’s an instrument that delivers 201 extremely focused cobalt radiation beams to treat cancerous tumors and other brain disorders.
The dosage and location are so precise that many patients can avoid the cognitive impairment that can come with invasive brain surgery or whole brain radiation. Those were the options before the Gamma Knife, first used in the U.S. in the late 1980s. (UAB has been home to the state’s only Gamma Knife since the mid-1990s.)
Three weeks before surgery, my oncologist, Dr. Carla Falkson, had delivered bad news. A brain scan showed something I had hoped to avoid in my battle with metastatic breast cancer: Multiple small tumors had formed in my brain and were the likely cause of my recent dizziness and bouts of nausea.
I cried. Then came good news. Falkson had already spoken to Dr. Jim Markert, director of UAB neurosurgery, who agreed I was a Gamma Knife candidate.
Read the remainder of this story here: Brain surgery? No problem and no pain
Gamma Knife 4C
Gamma Knife Perfexion
All Are Our Heroes – Saima’s Story
Saima's Story - All Are Our Heroes
For details on The 2009 Toronto Ride to Conquer Cancer® – http://blog.elekta.com/blog/?p=216
Ride to Conquer Cancer 2008
Live WebEx:
Cancer Treated with Radiation Therapy Elekta Axesse™ SBRT Linear Accelerator
When: June 23, 2009, 5:00 PM EDT
Where: Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center
James J. Urbanic, M.D., a radiation oncologist, and Carnell J. Hampton, Ph.D., a physicist at the Comprehensive Cancer Center at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, will use the most advanced linear accelerator to treat lung cancer.
The Elekta Axesse™ image guided linear accelerator offers highly-accurate targeting of tumors and lesions virtually anywhere in the body. Typically requiring only one to five treatments, it achieves excellent results in fewer treatments than required by standard radiotherapy.
“Axesse raises our technological and treatment capabilities to an even higher level,” said Urbanic, lead physician on the Axesse team. “We are able to deliver higher and more conformal doses of radiation to the target in fewer fractions than with conventional radiation therapy techniques.” For patients, that means more convenience and a faster return to their daily activities.
For Full Details, please follow this link Live WebEx: Cancer Treated with Radiation Therapy Elekta Axesse™ SBRT Linear Accelerator
Elekta Axesse
For a reminder e-mail of this Free WebEx, please choose this link: Receive an Email or TXT Reminder
main website – http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR?fr_id=12951&pg=entry
Relay For Life is the American Cancer Society’s signature activity. It offers everyone in a community an opportunity to participate in the fight against cancer. Teams of people camp out at a local high school, park, or fairground and take turns walking or running around a track or path. Each team is asked to have a representative on the track at all times during the event. Relays are an overnight event, up to 24 hours in length.
Relay for Life - Gwinnett
Relay For Life is a life-changing event that brings together more than 3.5 million people to:
* Celebrate the lives of those who have battled cancer. The strength of survivors inspires others to continue to fight.
* Remember loved ones lost to the disease. At Relay, people who have walked alongside people battling cancer can grieve and find healing.
* Fight Back. We Relay because we have been touched by cancer and desperately want to put an end to the disease.
For further information on the event, please visit RelayForLife.org.
- Largest Neurosurgical Center in Russia Acquires Elekta’s Leksell Gamma Knife Perfexion February 6, 2012Russia’s first Leksell Gamma Knife® Perfexion™ system has found a home at the renowned N.N. Burdenko Neurosurgical Institute, just a five-minute car ride from Moscow’s Red Square. On June 2, 2011, a 59-year-old woman was the first Perfexion patient, receiving Gamma Knife® radiosurgery to treat tumor tissue that remained following open surgery. Now, eight mon […]
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