The studies "aren't substantial enough or rigorous enough to enable doctors to use in making decisions for their patients, " says Connie Manz, chief medical officer for closely held 21st Century Oncology, a large provider of radiation-therapy services based in Fort Myers, Fla.
In 2002 cancer doctors began prescribing a new service called intensity-modulated radiation therapy.
Ms Williams believes the government should support innovative developments such as image-guided radiation therapy and stereotactic ablative radiotherapy, at the hospital.
She died a few months later after whole-brain radiation therapy.
The drug, Avastin, could hit the market by year-end, joining existing anticancer chemicals and radiation as standard therapy for colon cancer--and it could end up working against other cancers.
Anastacia, who had the surgery on 10 February, will begin a six-week course of radiation therapy in the coming weeks.
The American Cancer Society and National Comprehensive Cancer Network Expert Consensus Guidelines recommend both surgery and radiation therapy as equally appropriate treatments for early-stage prostate cancer.
Only this year did Dosoretz disclose to shareholders that he is a half-owner of a Florida company called Oncology Consulting Services that directs lower-paying HMO patients from Humana (nyse: HUM - news - people ) to radiation clinics owned by Radiation Therapy Services.
The hospital is currently the only one in the South West using the hi-tech mask with radiation treatment known as volumetrically modulated arc therapy (VMAT).
Only this year did Dosoretz disclose to shareholders that he is a half-owner of a Florida company called Oncology Consulting Services that directs lower-paying HMO patients from Humana to radiation clinics owned by Radiation Therapy Services.
"Many communities have five radiation centers that should have one or two, " says Kevin Gross, president of Universal Health Services (nyse: UHS - news - people ), a national hospital chain that also provides radiation therapy.
West Virginia-based Schiffler Cancer Center radiation oncologist Gregory Merrick says it will revolutionize how radio seed therapy is done.
Late in the summer ten kids with advanced neuroblastoma, one of the deadliest childhood cancers, began undergoing a radical new gene therapy with a breathtaking goal--to fight the disease not by deploying often inadequate chemotherapy and radiation but by jiggering the immune system to attack tumors it otherwise ignores.
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