This week our team successfully completed an adaptive treatment on a patient, once again utilizing our ViewRay Systems MRIdian machine. The MRIdian uses magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to precisely target tumors in real time. This machine is also equipped with adaptive technology, allowing doctors to adjust treatment plans each day to account for changes in organ […]
The project now has all necessary approvals from the Illinois Health Facilities & Services Review Board, BJC HealthCare, and Washington University Physicians In Illinois, Inc. Read full article from Washington University School of Medicine »
Patients to be seen at Swansea clinic until new facility opens at Memorial Hospital East
$26.3 million outpatient facility will be on Christian Hospital’s Northwest HealthCare campus
A child life specialist with St. Louis Children’s hospital is giving kids “super” strength to beat cancer.
Phelps County Regional Medical Center joins network to reduce cancer’s impact in south central Missouri
Doctors halt deadly rhythm with noninvasive therapy
Siteman Cancer Center-South County marks its fifth anniversary this year. The facility houses radiation oncology and medical oncology services and provides surgical consulting.
8-year-old Evan has to wear a mask as he undergoes proton beam therapy to fight his brain tumor – so the staff at St. Louis Children’s Hospital surprised him with his very own Stormtroopers helmet “to help empower” him during treatment.
The force is strong with Evan. His Star Wars mask is more than stylish – it’s an important part of his Proton Beam therapy.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Escalating the radiation dose in men with intermediate-risk prostate cancer improves biochemical control but not overall survival, researchers say.
An article featuring Brian Baumann, MD, as senior author has recently been highlighted in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Surgery. The article discusses a clinical trial for bladder cancer, in which it was evaluated whether the addition of post-operative radiation therapy after radical cystectomy for bladder cancer can reduce local-regional cancer recurrences […]
Learn about a patient’s experience with radiation oncology at Alton Memorial Hospital »
A flash of radiation drastically reduced arrhythmia in a small group of patients, for at least a year after treatment. Christopher Intagliata reports. Listen to full episode of Scientific American’s 60-Second Science podcast »
Five patients treated for ventricular tachycardia Read full article at Washington University School of Medicine News Hub »
Rapid, erratic heartbeats — called ventricular tachycardia — can lead to sudden death. An experimental radiation treatment has eased the condition in five patients. Read full article at NYTimes.com »
Parag Parikh, MD, an associate professor of radiation oncology at Washington University, will be the lead investigator on a multi-center clinical trial studying pancreatic cancer patients who receive treatment on an MR-guided linear accelerator system called the ViewRay MRIdian® Linac. The study will be available in multiple centers in the U.S., Europe and Asia. The […]
The Department of Radiation Oncology at Washington University School of Medicine recently celebrated their treatment of the 500th patient at the S. Lee Kling Center for Proton Therapy. The S. Lee Kling Center for Proton Therapy, which opened in late 2013, is the first single-room proton therapy facility in the country, and the first and […]
A Siteman Kids at St. Louis Children’s Hospital patient finishing treatment at the S. Lee Kling Proton Therapy Center recently had the opportunity to ring the bell on the hospital’s new billboard. Read more »
Learn about a patient’s experience with radiation oncology at Alton Memorial Hospital »
About one-third of stage 3 patients alive after 5 years, a development called promising by oncologists
Brian Baumann, MD, an incoming Department of Radiation Oncology faculty member, has been receiving attention for recently published research that he conducted at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania concerning the safety of antiperspirant use by women undergoing radiation therapy for breast cancer. Despite the common advice to forego antiperspirant during […]
Clifford Robinson, MD, recently participated in a Facebook live session with Brad Eastman, a Department of Radiation Oncology patient, and advocate for the Alliance for Proton Therapy Access. Mr. Eastman, one of the earliest patients to receive proton therapy at Siteman Cancer Center, is now four years cancer free. Watch the recording to learn more […]
Christian Hospital will be home to Siteman’s fifth site.
At first glance, you would never suspect that I am a brain cancer survivor. I am young, energetic and, seemingly, the picture of health. Source: I am celebrating life thanks to proton therapy | Guest columnists | stltoday.com