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As a disease that annually takes the lives of more people than breast, prostate, colon and pancreatic cancers combined, lung cancer will kill more than 156,000 people in the United States this year, according to the American Cancer Society. Additionally, about a quarter of a million people will face a lung cancer diagnosis.

November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month — a time to take action, quit smoking, educate loved ones and raise awareness for the leading cause of cancer…

BOULDER, Colo. — Bradley Schuller, Ph.D. and physicist with Boulder-based Rocky Mountain CyberKnife, recently presented research findings from a pilot study conducted in conjunction with Mountain Radiation Oncology Consultants at the 53rd annual meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) in Vancouver.

The study examined the calculation of cumulative biological effective dose (BED) distributions in multi-modality cancer treatment plans, specifically…

April is Cancer Control Month, an opportunity Rocky Mountain CyberKnife and Boulder Cancer Care are using to encourage healthy lifestyles, remind people to visit their primary care physician regularly and stress the importance of screenings and early detection of cancer.

And cancer control is an issue worth addressing, especially in Boulder County where the…