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The News and Media section of the website provides the latest information on activities within the College, and the clinical radiology and radiation oncology professions.

Radiation Oncology
08 May 2017

Funding for advanced Radiation Therapy Facility in South Australia

The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists (RANZCR) welcomes the Government’s announcement of the first proton therapy centre expected to be operational in South Australia by 2020. Radiation therapy is a...
Clinical Radiology Radiation Oncology
08 May 2017

NZ Doctors required for MCNZ Professional Conduct Committees

The Medical Council of New Zealand (MCNZ) are calling for doctors to sit on their Professional Conduct Committees. The MCNZ's principal purpose is to protect the health and safety of the public by providing mechanisms to...
Radiation Oncology
08 May 2017

Consultation: Imaging in Radiation Oncology – A RANZCR Consensus White Paper

The Faculty published the Imaging in Radiation Oncology – a RANZCR Consensus White Paper in 2014, with the aim to identify and document appropriate imaging in the radiotherapeutic management of patients with cancer based on...
Radiation Oncology
04 May 2017

RANZCR Radiation Oncologist A/Prof Shalini Vinod to represent the Faculty at ESTRO Meeting

The European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ESTRO) is hosting its third joint ESTRO-RANZCR session at the forthcoming meeting in Vienna from 5-9 May 2017. As part of the second MOU signed between ESTRO and...
Clinical Radiology Radiation Oncology
03 May 2017

Refreshed RANZCR Website Now Live

RANZCR has a refreshed website which is now live at www.ranzcr.com. This complements our award-winning websites for Targeting Cancer and InsideRadiology which were re-launched in 2015 and 2016.  The website has been...
Radiation Oncology
30 March 2017

New approach to Radiation Therapy halves prostate cancer treatment time

Australian researchers are celebrating the results of a new clinical trial, which shows that radiation therapy for prostate cancer can safely be compressed from a standard eight weeks of daily treatment down to four weeks with...