Kaplan claims that Radiation Therapy Services uses kickbacks to generate a steady stream of referrals.
Over the years Radiation Therapy has bought out 30 gynecological oncologists, surgeons and urologists.
In May, Chavez said he had successfully completed his latest cycle of radiation therapy.
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In recent years instrument makers have refined the therapy further with a technique called Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy.
In several of these deals Radiation Therapy's share of referrals jumped to 100% if it wasn't there already.
Dosoretz's company has a contract with the Cleveland Clinic's Weston, Fla. campus to provide radiation therapy to its patients.
In 2002 cancer doctors began prescribing a new service called intensity-modulated radiation therapy.
When localized to one area of the body, HL is treated with radiation therapy or radiation therapy with chemotherapy.
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Anastacia, who had the surgery on 10 February, will begin a six-week course of radiation therapy in the coming weeks.
Radiation Therapy has never disclosed this bit of Sheridan's past, even though Medicare billings make up half of its annual revenue.
Angelil immediately began radiation therapy and Dion began taking care of the man who for so long had watched over her.
Ms Williams believes the government should support innovative developments such as image-guided radiation therapy and stereotactic ablative radiotherapy, at the hospital.
While I was training, Anje was undergoing five weeks of radiation therapy.
He set about meticulously researching various treatment options and the survival odds of each one before undergoing a relatively new radiation therapy.
Adrian Ashby, 49, from Alcester, is appealing against a local NHS decision in February which refused funding for a form of radiation therapy.
He announced in June 2011 that he had cancer and has undergone four operations since then, as well as chemotherapy and radiation therapy.
Shares of Radiation Therapy Services cooled off in 2006 with Medicare vowing to cut reimbursements for IMRT procedures by 27% over four years.
After Rovshen was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2002, Shaw watched her friend suffer through a long procession of chemotherapy, radiation therapy and immunotherapy.
Radiation Therapy does disclose to shareholders that Dosoretz and his doctor partners own a Cayman Islands reinsurance company that covers the company for malpractice.
The same technique could eventually work for human cancers, especially those that are treated with abdominal radiation therapy such as gastrointestinal, genitourinary, and gynaecological tumours.
Have you ever had radiation therapy to your abdomen or pelvis?
But, whereas I only needed radiation therapy, she also needed chemotherapy.
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The American Cancer Society and National Comprehensive Cancer Network Expert Consensus Guidelines recommend both surgery and radiation therapy as equally appropriate treatments for early-stage prostate cancer.
Just weeks after recognizing Radiation Therapy Services as one of America's best small companies, you chose to trivialize and demean us in " Beams and Schemes" (Jan. 8).
She died a few months later after whole-brain radiation therapy.
She's still undergoing radiation therapy but is back at work.
Have you ever received radiation therapy for another medical condition?
Radiation Therapy is countersuing Kaplan for violating his noncompete clause.
There are no studies directly comparing surgery to radiation therapy.
"Many communities have five radiation centers that should have one or two, " says Kevin Gross, president of Universal Health Services, a national hospital chain that also provides radiation therapy.
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