Coding for Treatment Devices Treatment devices, designs, and construction may be charged during a course of therapy when documentation substantiates multiple volumes of interest/ports, the use of custom-made devices, and/or the necessity of replacement devices. ...
Radiation hyperthermia treatment, also known as thermal therapy, is a specialized technique used in radiation oncology to enhance the effectiveness of radiation therapy by raising the temperature of the targeted tumor or cancerous tissue. The CPT code range 77600-77615 is dedicated tocodingand billing ...
Cervical cancer is one of the most common cancers among females worldwide and advanced patients have extremely poor prognosis. However, adverse reactions and accumulating resistance to radiation therapy require further investigation. The expression level
This cohort study examines the overall survival in men with very high-risk prostate cancer who are treated with radiotherapy and hormone therapy at
529#Background:With recent Level I evidence (FAST FORWARD) supporting radiation therapy (RT) duration as short as one week and Level I evidence (CALGB9343) supporting RT omission in favor of antiestrogen endocrine therapy (ET) alone in select patients, the necessity of both RT and ET, ...
12C-irradiation was performed at the Marburg Ion-Beam Therapy Centre (MIT). Cells were irradiated with a horizontal beam of 114.5–129.5 MeV/n 12C-ions and positioned in the middle of a spread-out Bragg peak (SOBP) of 10–20 mm. Fields were applied using active scanning with a square of...
According to the guidelines of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN), the use of radio(chemo)therapy is recommended for PDAC patients with borderline-resectable tumors, and several regimens involving capecitabine, gemcitabine, or 5-FU have been clinically implemented [29, 30]. The ...
Most people don’t understand what radiation therapy is. They often think we are Radiologists, most people associate cancer with chemotherapy and are very unfamiliar with the benefits of radiation. It typically has a negative association from my experience.” In the survey and the focus groups, ...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is about to touch every aspect of radiation therapy, from consultation to treatment planning, quality assurance, therapy delivery, and outcomes modeling. There is an urgent need to train radiation oncologists and medical physicists in data science to help shepherd AI solu...
About half of cancer patients undergo radiation therapy as part of their cancer treatment. Even though great advances have been made in treatment delivery techniques, allowing for better tumor targeting and sparing large volumes of healthy tissue, radiation exposure of significant volumes of normal ...