Tag: interventional oncology

argon medical

Argon Medical announces acquisition of Accurate Medical Therapeutics microcatheters

Argon Medical has announced the acquisition of Accurate Medical Therapeutics' SeQure and DraKon microcatheters. Microcatheters such as SeQure and DraKon are commonly used by physicians...
IASIOS

IASIOS announces enrolment of first paediatric centre

The International Accreditation System for Interventional Oncology Services (IASIOS) has announced the enrolment of its first paediatric centre, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in...
Quantum Surgical

Rush University System for Health acquires Quantum Surgical robotic-assisted technology

Rush University System for Health has announced today that it has acquired Quantum Surgical’s Epione platform. Rush University Medical Center is among a select...
QoL

Quality over quantity? The growing focus on QoL in interventional oncology

A focus session dedicated to quality-of-life (QoL) outcomes in interventional oncology (IO) at this year’s Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE) annual...

CIRSE launch immuno-oncology trial alongside Immunophotonics

Immunophotonics has announced a collaboration with The Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE) around a phase 2/3 clinical trial. The trial is designed...
SIRT

Multidisciplinary panel supports the positive role of SIRT at SUMM90YT conference

This advertorial is sponsored by Sirtex Medical, is only available in selected countries and geographies. The SUMM90YT conference (23 February, Frankfurt, Germany)—hosted by Sirtex—gathered leading...

Patrick Haage

As a champion of innovation and forward movement in his chosen field of interventional radiology (IR), Patrick Haage’s career is no less a reflection...
IASIOS

IASIOS awards first institution centre of excellence seal

The International Accreditation System for Interventional Oncology Services (IASIOS) has announced that the Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg in France has been designated as the world’s first centre of excellence. A...
cancer

Peeling the “onion”: Pain palliation’s developing role in cancer care

At this year’s Society of Interventional Oncology (SIO) annual conference (25–29 January, Long Beach, USA), Dimitrios Filippiadis (Athens, Greece) moderated and presented in a...
iasios

Unifying IO globally: IASIOS reports first US accredited centre

The International Accreditation System for Interventional Oncology Services (IASIOS) is the world’s first accreditation programme focused exclusively on standardising interventional oncology (IO) care, redefining...

Alda Tam

Alda Tam is an interventional radiologist and professor at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, USA, and is current president...

First clinical experiences with the Epione® Robot prove to be a...

NOTE: This video is ONLY available to watch in selected countries and geographies Thierry de Baère (Paris, France), Laurent Milot (Lyon, France) and Govindarajan...
IASIOS

IASIOS reports first accredited centre in the USA

The International Accreditation System for Interventional Oncology Services (IASIOS) has reported experiencing exponential growth exceeding 150% in the past year. IASIOS has been at...
radiation oncology

“We started off with chinagraphs”: The evolution of radiation oncology

Liz Kenny of the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital (Brisbane, Australia) gave her radiation oncologist’s take on the “120-odd-year” history of radiation therapy, how...

SIO president sets sights on becoming “strongest voice for the...

Muneeb Ahmed is an interventional radiologist specialising in interventional oncology (IO) at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre (Boston, USA) and current president of the...
iasios

IASIOS reports significant increase in global interventional oncology centres

The International Accreditation System for Interventional Oncology Services (IASIOS), a membership-based accreditation programme, announces its continued advancement in a recent press release, reporting that...
nick brown australia

“Doing better” for IR in Australia and New Zealand, from specialty...

Interventional radiologist Nick Brown is clinical director of the radiology service at The Wesley Hospital (Auchenflower, New Zealand) and associate professor at the University...

First patient treated with Epione robot in USA

Govindarajan Narayanan, chief of interventional oncology at Miami Cancer Institute and a vascular interventional radiologist with Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute (both Miami, USA),...

IO of the past, present and future: presentation predicts what is...

Setting the audiences sights on the horizon at the 2023 Global Embolization Oncology Symposium (GEST, 18­–21 May, New York City, USA) yesterday, Daniel Sze...
varian

Varian introduces Isolis cryoprobe to simplify planning and guidance during cryoablation...

Varian, a Siemens Healthineers company, is introducing the Isolis cryoprobe, a single-use, disposable device designed for use with CryoCare systems that seeks to...

American Urological Association recommends tumour ablation for kidney sparing

The American Urological Association (AUA), in partnership with the Society of Urologic Oncology (SUO), released the 2023 clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis and...

Cryoablation for renal cell carcinoma: Where do we stand? Where are...

Christos Georgiades (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA), delves into the various national society guidelines for treating renal cell carcinoma (RCC), what the ‘gold standard’...
Delcath Systems

Delcath Systems announces US FDA acceptance of Hepzato Kit new drug...

Delcath Systems has announced in a company press release that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted its (Delcath's) new drug application...
BCLC sarah white

PAIRS 2023: What the BCLC guidelines have omitted

Sarah White (Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA) opened the liver interventional oncology (IO) session at the Pan Arab Interventional Radiology Society (PAIRS) annual...
interventional radiology

Histotripsy: New technology making waves in IO

Mina S Makary, assistant professor at the Division of Vascular and Interventional Radiology/Department of Radiology at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center (Columbus,...
patient-centric

Patient-centric care: Recognising the value of non-clinical intervention

During the Society of Interventional Oncology (SIO) 2023 annual scientific meeting in Washington DC, USA, a panel of speakers delivered presentations on why patient-centred...

US Patent Office Grants Notice of Allowance to IceCure for its...

IceCure Medical has shared in a press release that it has received a Notice of Allowance from the US Patent and Trademark Office for...
truveta

Truveta announces collaboration with Boston Scientific to advance post-procedure patient insights...

Truveta announced a strategic collaborative agreement with Boston Scientific to improve long-term patient care and gain insights into healthcare disparities. Through this collaboration, Boston...
philippe pereira lifepearl

ECIO 2022 sees launch of landmark foundation IO course: Q&A with...

The 2022 European Congress on Interventional Oncology (ECIO) took place 24–27 April in Vienna, Austria. Interventional News spoke to chairman Philippe Pereira (SLK-Kliniken, Stuttgart,...
Thomas Helmberger ESR

ECR 2022: Interventional oncology is the fourth pillar of oncology—a shift...

With cancer cases growing worldwide and an increased number of late-stage diseases in elderly patients, there is an increasing need for an integrated approach....

New consensus guidelines will facilitate interventional oncology research

We are facing several problems in the field of clinical oncology research, by which I mean that study results are being collected, analysed and...
curative intent

Guidelines will boost interventional oncology research

The development of new research guidelines for interventional oncology that standardise treatment outcomes and the reporting of data represents a major step forward for...
CAVA

CAVA RCT delivers powerful evidence supporting use of PORTs to supply...

For most patients receiving systemic anticancer treatment (SACT), totally implanted ports (PORTs) are more effective and safer than both Hickman-type tunnelled catheters (Hickman) and...
radioembolization

Radioembolization can be used as a bridge to surgery in HCC...

Using selective internal radiation therapy (SIRT) to down-stage hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) tumours or act as a bridge to surgery is feasible for both small...
COLDFIRE-2

COLDFIRE 2: IRE is safe, effective in patients unsuitable for thermal...

Irreversible electroporation (IRE) is an effective and relatively safe treatment for colorectal liver metastases 5cm or smaller that are deemed unsuitable for partial hepatectomy,...

AB-LATE02 randomised trial to probe “synergistic” immunotherapy and ablation strategy for...

A randomised trial—AB-LATE02—will assess the efficacy of a combination of neoadjuvant atezolizumab, and adjuvant atezolizumab and bevacizumab with radiofrequency ablation (RFA) as a treatment...
IASIOS

IASIOS, the world’s first accreditation programme for interventional oncology, just opened...

The International Accreditation System for Interventional Oncology Services (IASIOS) has passed its pilot phase with flying colours, the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of...
confirmation

Ablation-confirmation software must become the new normal for IRs to be...

“If interventional radiologists wish to become competitive with surgeons, the availability of software enabling the accurate comparison of pre- and post-interventional CT or...

Novel embolic device used for arterial and venous tumour treatments

Fluidx Medical Technology has announced that GPX Embolic Device first patient use cases were presented at LINC 2021 (25–29 January, online). “This is very promising...
AI

Artificial intelligence should be incorporated into interventional oncology curricula to advance...

“Artificial intelligence is changing the face of healthcare for all stakeholders, from consumers to providers,” Stephen Hunt (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA; co-founder...

Ten-year data at single institution support thermal lung ablation as a...

Thermal lung ablation (TLA) is an effective treatment, resulting in good overall survival with good local control, attendees were told at the 2020 annual...
tumoural

Cancer treatment beyond systemic chemotherapy: Local intra-tumoural injections demonstrate abscopal effect

Preclinical and clinical studies show that local, intra-tumoural injection of immunomodulatory agents can result in the shrinking of tumours distant from the site of...
hepatic

The evolving role of hepatic ablation

Raul Uppot (Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA) speaks to Interventional News about the evolution of hepatic ablation, following his talk on the same topic at...
immuno-oncology

Combination of immuno-oncology and liver-directed therapy: Where do we stand?

Ushering in “the era of IO”, Brad Wood calls for interventional oncologists to learn the language of immuno-oncology—“the other IO”—in order to improve care...
Interventional News for specialists

Sirtex Medical partners with Magle Chemoswed to develop imaging agent

Sirtex Medical has announced a collaboration with Magle Chemoswed, a Sweden-based contract development and manufacturing organisation. The development and commercial agreement grants Sirtex global use...
interventional oncology

Interventional Oncology 2.0: Soul-searching to define our identity

Julius Chapiro and Lynn Savic claim there is “no need for scepticism” about the recent emergence and growth of immuno-oncology from an interventional oncologists’...
rilling

Bill Rilling

Instrumental to the development of interventional oncology in the USA and globally, William (Bill) Rilling tracks how the discipline has grown over the course...

Lipidol Ultra-Fluid recevies approval for use in cTACE by China NMPA

Guerbet has announced the approval of an additional indication for Lipiodol Ultra-Fluid by the China NMPA (National Medical Products Administration) for use in transarterial...

International accreditation scheme “brings IO into the mainstream”

The newly established International Accreditation System for Interventional Oncology Services (IASIOS) gives medical facilities the opportunity to receive credentials for their interventional oncology (IO)...
teaching

CIRSE 2019: Teaching materials to follow curriculum in IO education

 CIRSE 2019 Gold Medal awardee, Thierry de Baère (Villejuif, France), tells Interventional News at the society’s annual meeting (7-11 September, Barcelona, Spain) that this...
interventional oncology

What is an interventional oncologist?

Society of Interventional Oncology (SIO) president William (Bill) Rilling notes that you do not need to be a full time cancer specialist to describe...
RAST

First in man study of robotically-assisted sonic therapy concludes the technique...

Preliminary results of a first in man trial demonstrate that robotically-assisted sonic therapy (RAST) can create a planned ablation volume without significant device-related adverse...

Together, IO and RO can increase the scope of local tumour...

 Bringing interventional oncology (IO) and radiation oncology (RO) closer together would yield more than important logistical gains for IO; it would open up a...
Oncology

Interventional oncology established in “mainstream” cancer care with world-first clinical symposium

The world-first collaboration between interventional oncology (IO) and radiation oncology, embraced by the Trans-Tasman Radiation Oncology Group (TROG), continues to bear fruit, with the...
SIR

SIR advocates for a reallocation of Capitol funding to increase interventional...

At the third Capitol briefing from the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR), Susan Sedory, executive director for SIR, along with a panel of experienced...
gene

Involving interventional oncologists in gene therapies could cut the prohibitive costs

Daniel Sze (Stanford University, Stanford, USA), presenting at the European Conference on Interventional Oncology Annual Meeting (ECIO; 22–25 April, Vienna, Austria), calls for a...

WCIO 2018 puts biopsy front and centre of the interventional oncology...

The opening plenary at the World Conference on Interventional Oncology (WCIO; 7–10 June, Boston, USA) put biopsy, which is considered a mundane procedure by...

Stephen B Solomon

Stephen B Solomon, chief, Interventional Radiology Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA and president of the Society for Interventional Oncology (SIO)...

Artificial intelligence will support clinical decision making in interventional oncology

Aaron Abajian and Julius Chapiro, New Haven, USA, write about results from an early experiment in applying artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning as a...

Guerbet announces Lausanne partnership to evaluate immunogenic potential of cTACE

Guerbet has announced a partnership with the Department of Radiodiagnosis and Interventional Radiology of Lausanne's University Hospital (CHUV) and the Lausanne Center for Experimental...
Interventional News for specialists

Targeted immunotherapy treatment shows promise for treating for advanced liver cancer

Advanced stage liver tumours may be safely treated through image-guided injections of an immunotherapy approved for melanoma, according to phase 1 data presented at...

Clinical capabilities of Infinix-i 4D CT showcased at ECR 2018

Healthcare centres around Europe are realising a new realm of clinical efficiency with the Infinix-i 4D CT system, which seamlessly integrates interventional radiology and...

Varian signs agreement to acquire Sirtex

Varian Medical has announced it has signed an agreement to acquire all the outstanding shares of Sirtex Medical for A$28 per share in cash....

Northwestern University adopts radioembolization with TheraSphere as first-line treatment for HCC

BTG has announced that following positive results of its 15-year experience between 2003 and 2017 with TheraSphere, Northwestern University, Illinois, USA, has adopted Y-90...
Roberto Iezzi

Future directions for ablation in interventional oncology

The notion of locally destroying a cancer percutaneously with minimal morbidity and mortality has become accepted as part of the modern armamentarium for treating...

Vast majority of patients prefer radial access for embolization therapies in...

“While both radial and femoral accesses are safe and effective for transarterial liver embolization, it is clear that the patients prefer radial access,” said Marcelo Guimaraes, Charleston, USA, who was presenting on the...

Mentice aims to reduce TACE procedure times and radiation exposure with...

Mentice has announced the release of a new simulation training software for transarterial chemoembolization (TACE). The new software was showcased at the 2017 CIRSE...
Interventional News for specialists

BTG and SIO expand Immuno-Oncology / Interventional Oncology grant programme

BTG and the Society of Interventional Oncology (SIO) have expanded their commitment to the Immuno-oncology /interventional oncology research grant programme, by announcing a second...

Stephen Solomon assumes Society of Interventional Oncology presidency

The Society of Interventional Oncology (SIO) has announced new officers and a Board of Directors. Stephen Solomon, chief of Interventional Radiology at Memorial Sloan Kettering...

Radiofrequency ablation used to treat cancer pain for patients

Interventional radiologists at the Emory Johns Creek Hospitals (EJCH), Johns Creek, USA, are using radiofrequency ablation to reduce pain for cancer patients. Radiofrequency ablation is...

SIO announces first grants in interventional oncology /immuno-oncology research programme

The Society of Interventional Oncology (SIO and BTG have announced their 2017 Interventional interventional oncology /immuno-oncology research grant recipients. The interventional oncology /immuno-oncology research programme...