The Radiosurgery Society (RSS), a non-profit medical society dedicated to advancing the science and clinical practice of radiosurgery, recently published a study using data from its RSSearch Patient Registry, a multi-institutional, observational registry established to standardize data collection from patients treated with stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) and stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT). The study, titled “Lung…

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recently updated their prostate screening recommendations. On April 11, 2017, the USPSTF issued an updated draft recommendation on screening for prostate cancer.  The updated recommendation changes the grade for PSA-based screening from “D” to “C” for men 55 – 69 years of age.  As a result, the USPSTF…

A recent research paper in Oncotarget, a weekly peer-reviewed open access medical journal covering research on all aspects of oncology, reported that researchers from UR Medicine’s Wilmot Cancer Institute and Roswell Park Cancer Institute have discovered a possible new tool for predicting whether prostate cancer will reoccur following surgery based on the expression patterns of…

Title:  Radiation Therapist                 How long have you worked in the oncology industry?  I have worked in healthcare for over 22 years.  I have spent the last 13 years at the James Graham Brown Cancer Center.  What do you do in your role at Louisville CyberKnife? I deliver…