Wake Radiology Oncology Services has signed on as an Elite sponsor for this year’s Devil’s Ridge Charity Golf Classic, scheduled for Wednesday, September 24 at the Devils Ridge Golf course in Holly Springs. The annual fundraiser goes to support the Prostate Cancer Coalition of North Carolina (PCCNC), a non-profit organization that helps raise awareness of prostate cancer in the state. The organization promotes prostate cancer screening and testing programs, and has a goal of reducing the number of deaths from prostate cancer in the state by 50 percent in five years.

The staff at Wake Radiology Oncology Services recently celebrated its ten year anniversary. When the practice opened its office a decade ago, it was the Triangle’s first freestanding, full-service outpatient radiation therapy center. Since then, the practice has nearly doubled in size and has introduced newer therapies to treat cancer patients.

Wake Radiology Oncology Services announced today that it will partner this year with the American Cancer Society for the 2008 Wake County Relay For Life events. As the Wake County Healthcare sponsor, the practice will support four of the 2008 Relay For Life events, held at locations throughout the county. This marks the fifth year that Wake Radiology has sponsored the annual program.

What looks like gold dust in a jar is actually millions of tiny microspheres that deliver targeted radiation therapy to tumors in the liver. For patients with liver cancer, it might as well be gold.  During an outpatient procedure, about 40 million individual microspheres are implanted in the liver.

Yttrium 90 Microspheres Education and Support (YES) announces a new webinar, "Clinical Updates on Radioembolization." This program is presented in an effort to increase the awareness of Yttrium 90 Radioembolization (SIR-Spheres or Therasphere).

Sirtex, a leading developer of targeted and innovative cancer therapies, will sponsor a breakfast lecture at the 18th Annual American College of Radiation Oncology (ACRO) meeting to be held February 21-23 in Miami, Fla. The breakfast lecture, titled "Radioembolization Therapy for the Treatment of Liver Tumors: Latest Clinical Results," will take place on Thursday, February 21 at 7:30 a.m. in the Trianon Room at the Intercontinental Hotel.  The lecture, hosted by Andrew S. Kennedy, M.D., F.A.C.R.O., co-medical director of Wake Radiology Oncology in Cary, N.C., is designed to update physicians on the latest clinical results regarding the use of microsphere therapy, including SIR-Spheres(R) microspheres, in the treatment of metastatic liver tumors. Sirtex manufactures SIR-Spheres microspheres, the only FDA-approved radioactive microspheres for treatment of metastatic liver tumors.

Wake Radiology was a leading sponsor at this year’s annual Raleigh Roundup. The event, which benefits the American Cancer Society, was held Friday, November 9 at the Kerr Scott Building in Raleigh. This marked the 11th year of the roundup, which is hosted by the volunteers of the Red Sword Guild.

Wake Radiology contributed $5,000 to co-sponsor the Junior League of Raleigh's annual Preview Gala for the 2007 A Shopping Spree, which helps fund the Junior League of Raleigh's community youth projects.

This is Steve Jones’ story of his successful battle with prostate cancer. Jones opted for Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) to treat his prostate cancer under the guidance of Andrew Kennedy, MD, one of the country’s leading experts in IMRT, 3D conformal therapy, liver and prostate cancer treatment. IMRT uses an advanced 3-D system that spares normal tissue. The procedure has resulted in the eradication of cancer from Jones’ prostate.

Wake Radiology Oncology Services has signed on as an Elite sponsor for this year’s Devil’s Ridge Charity Golf Classic, scheduled for Wednesday, September 26 at the golf course in Holly Springs.