Tag: oncology
Innovative embolic device shows promise for interventional oncology drug delivery
Fluidx Medical’s GPX embolic device has released initial results for Oncology Drug Delivery. Fluidx Medical Technology announced that a next-generation, doxorubicin-loaded GPX embolic device...
Argon Medical Devices announces launch of minimally invasive drainage catheter
Argon Medical Devices has announced the commercial launch of Skater mini-loop drainage catheters in the USA and the European Union.
The Skater mini-loop is a...
Abstract submissions now open for SIO2022
Abstract submissions are now open for next year’s Society of Interventional Oncology annual meeting (SIO2022), which takes place from 3—7 February in San Francisco,...
Italian oncologists urge greater COVID-19 testing amongst healthcare workers treating cancer...
Medical oncologists Filippo Pietrantonio and Marina Chiara (both Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy) have launched a social media campaign called #knowyourstatus...
New augmented reality system lets IRs “literally see through the patient”
European Radiology Experimental has recently published a study on a new augmented reality system that is able to accurately guide interventional oncology procedures. A three-step...
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)...
ECR 2018: Will immunotherapy revolutionise cancer care?
Evasion of the immune system is an important mechanism in the development and progression of cancers. Cancer immunotherapies are a promising class of therapeutic...
Artificial intelligence and big data in medical imaging will dramatically change...
The analysis of big data with artificial intelligence (AI) techniques will have an enormous impact on disease prevention, cure and care. By 2030, it...
OsteoCool RF ablation system gets expanded indication for palliative treatment of...
Medtronic has announced that the US FDA has cleared an expanded indication for the OsteoCool radiofrequency (RF) ablation system.
Originally cleared for use in the...