The University of Edinburgh will be home to a new £3 million veterinary cancer research and treatment facility scheduled to open in June 2008. The new center is expected to become one of the top five veterinary cancer centers in the world and will offer a comprehensive range of treatments including radiotherapy using advanced imaging [...]

The Swedish Cancer Institute (SCI) has announced plans to open a 22 million dollar Proton Beam Radiation Therapy (PBRT) treatment facility which will be the first one of its kind in the Pacific Northwest. PBRT is designed to target tumors that are in close proximity to critical body structures. It is currently used to treat [...]

Radiologist Michael Kuo believes there is a way to get important details about tumors hidden inside liver cancer patients without subjecting them to surgical biopsies. Using the concept of the Star Trek tricorder as their inspiration, he and his team are researching the possibility of using scanning devices outside of the body to noninvasively determine [...]