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Patient-specific immobilisation for radiotherapy treatment of extensive lower-limb carcinoma
Tanya Kairn (Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Brisbane Qld, Australia, University of Queensland, Brisbane Qld, Australia, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane Qld, Australia), Tania Poroa (Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Brisbane Qld, Australia, Herston Biofabrication Institute, Metro North Hospital and Health Service, Brisbane Qld, Australia), Jenna Luscombe (Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Brisbane Qld, Australia, Herston Biofabrication Institute, Metro North Hospital and Health Service, Brisbane Qld, Australia), Shaun Chan (Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Brisbane Qld, Australia), Michelle Grogan (Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Brisbane Qld, Australia, University of Queensland, Brisbane Qld, Australia), Scott B. Crowe (Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Brisbane Qld, Australia, University of Queensland, Brisbane Qld, Australia, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane Qld, Australia, Herston Biofabrication Institute, Metro North Hospital and Health Service, Brisbane Qld, Australia)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.21331 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.21331 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.21331
arXiv:2606.21331v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: When non-melanoma skin cancers extend over large areas of skin, effective radiotherapy treatments can be delivered using volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) beams with narrow segments that rotate around the affected surfaces. For lower-limb carcinoma treatments, careful immobilisation is needed to achieve the degree of reproducible and stable positioning required to ensure the narrow field segments treat the targeted tissue and avoid underlying anatomy. To meet this need, a 3D printed patient-specific foot support was created in the form of a solid box containing a deep ``footprint'', shaped to match the outline of the patient's relaxed foot when lying supine, supported by a vacuum bag. For our first patient treated with a 3D printed foot support, image guidance data and clinical notes were evaluated against corresponding information from all recent lower-leg VMAT treatments. The patient feedback was recorded as ``good'', with no complaints of discomfort or poor fit, and the proportion of treatment fractions requiring shifts greater than 5 mm after setup imaging (20\%) compared favourably to the proportions for patients without a patient-specific foot support (23\%-84\%). The patient-specific foot support was particularly useful for minimising longitudinal shifts and leg rotations. Evidently, 3D-printed patient-specific immobilisation devices have the potential to enhance positioning stability, and therefore potentially improve accuracy and effectiveness of VMAT treatments, for patients with extensive lower-limb carcinomas.
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“Data belonging to tens of thousands of patients was stolen in a cyberattack targeting an external service provider used by numerous hospitals in Germany, public broadcaster ARD reported Friday.”
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/german-hospitals-target…

German hospitals targeted in massive cyberattack
Data belonging to tens of thousands of patients stolen in cyberattack targeting external hospital service provider

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U.K.-based healthcare billing software maker Craneware is responding to a cyberattack
in which hackers stole a “significant volume” of customer data from its systems, the company said on Monday.
The company said the hackers appear to have been expelled from its systems, but its investigation into the breach is ongoing, according to a statement filed with the London Stock Exchange.
Craneware’s flagship accounting and billing software is used by thousands of clinics, hospital…

Hackers stole 'significant' amount of data from tech firm relied on by thousands of US hospitals and pharmacies | TechCrunch
Edinburgh-based tech firm Craneware said customer data was stolen during a cyberattack. The company makes software that thousands of U.S. hospitals, pharmacies, and clinics rely on for billing patients, potentially exposing health data.

sp_hospital: Hospital ward dynamic contacts (2010)
This dataset contains the temporal network of contacts between patients, patients and health-care workers (HCWs) and among HCWs in a hospital ward in Lyon, France, from Monday, December 6, 2010 at 1:00 pm to Friday, December 10, 2010 at 2:00 pm. The study included 46 HCWs and 29 patients.
This network has 75 nodes and 32424 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Temporal, Metadata

Pre-order for Forza Horizon 6: Hospital Records soundtrack just dropped, yay!
And it’s gonna be an interesting experience to listen to this album with zero hours spent in the game. All the previous ones hit differently for the sole reason I heard them while playing.
https://hospitalrecords.bandcamp.com/album/forza-horizon-6-hospital-records

Suspect taken to hospital after volley of gunshots heard near White House (Robert Mackey/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/23/gunshots-white-house
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NYC Health Hospitals says hackers accessed its network from Nov. 2025 to Feb. 2026, exposing personal data, medical records, and fingerprints of 1.8M people (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
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NYC Health + Hospitals says hackers stole medical data and fingerprints during breach affecting at least 1.8 million people | TechCrunch
The New York public healthcare system said hackers stole personal and medical data, and scans of biometrics — including fingerprints — in one of the largest recorded breaches of 2026.

Adapting a 3D scanning water phantom for use in brachytherapy dosimetry
Rachael Wilks (Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Herston Qld 4029, Australia, Herston Biofabrication Institute, Herston Qld 4029, Australia, University of Queensland, St. Lucia Qld 4072, Australia), Samuel C. Peet (Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Herston Qld 4029, Australia, Herston Biofabrication Institute, Herston Qld 4029, Australia, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane Qld 4001, Australia), Tanya Kairn (Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Herston Qld 4029, Australia, Herston Biofabrication Institute, Herston Qld 4029, Australia, University of Queensland, St. Lucia Qld 4072, Australia, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane Qld 4001, Australia), Scott B. Crowe (Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Herston Qld 4029, Australia, Herston Biofabrication Institute, Herston Qld 4029, Australia, University of Queensland, St. Lucia Qld 4072, Australia, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane Qld 4001, Australia)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.21320 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.21320 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.21320
arXiv:2606.21320v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In external beam radiotherapy, 3D scanning water phantoms are the gold standard for obtaining relative dosimetry data. These phantoms, consisting of a water tank and mechanical arm, along with accompanying software, are de-signed to acquire dose profiles along and orthogonal to the beam axis. In brachy-therapy, the acquisition of analogous dose profiles is more difficult, and is generally achieved with complex custom-built phantoms or chemical dosimeters such as film or gel. In this study, a low-cost 3D-printed jig was designed and fabricated within a clinical department, to allow precise brachytherapy dose measurements using a PTW BeamScan water phantom. Specifically, this jig al-lowed applicators to be suspended securely and reproducibly within the water phantom. Protocols were developed to relate the scanning system coordinates to the physical source position, and to obtain isodose planes both parallel and radial to the source axis. The developed solution has the potential to be used for physical verification of TG43 dose calculation parameters (e.g. anisotropy functions), the characterization of dose for a single dwell position in a complex applicator containing non-water equivalent materials, or the collection of point dose measure-ments for treatments incorporating multiple dwell positions or catheters.
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Characteristics of a 9 MeV electron beam for total skin electron radiotherapy evaluated in comparison to a 6 MeV electron beam
Tanya Kairn (Cancer Care Services, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Herston, Qld, Australia, School of Chemistry and Physics, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Qld, Australia, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Qld, Australia), Craig M. Lancaster (Cancer Care Services, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Herston, Qld, Australia), Scott B. Crowe (Cancer Care Services, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Herston, Qld, Australia, School of Chemistry and Physics, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Qld, Australia, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Qld, Australia)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.21312 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.21312 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.21312
arXiv:2606.21312v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Characteristics of a 9 MeV electron beam were investigated, to evaluate potential benefits for patients with extensive mycosis fungoides lesions that are deeper than commonly treated with 6 MeV total skin electron therapy (TSET or TSE/TSEI/TSEB/TSEBT). A comprehensive commissioning measurement program was completed for TSET delivery using high-dose-rate 6 MeV and 9 MeV electron beams from a Varian TrueBeam linac. Various phantoms and dosimeters were set up 300 cm from isocenter, behind a 6 mm PMMA spoiler screen, and used for optimising beam-pair gantry angles, measuring depth-dose, lateral and horizontal profiles and B-factors, as well as performing end-to-end tests. The key clinical distinctions observed for the 9 MeV TSET beam pair compared to the 6 MeV TSET beam pair were that the 80% dose depth increased to nearly 1 cm and the practical range increased to 3.5 cm, while the maximum dose remained within 0.2 cm of the surface. Vertical and horizontal dose profiles measured with the two energies were almost indistinguishable. The 9 MeV TSET beam has been shown to achieve greater depth penetration compared to the commonly used 6 MeV TSET beam, without detrimentally affecting the dose uniformity achievable in the patient plane. TSET treatments with 9 MeV electrons may be advisable for patients with extensive lesions that are too deep for effective treatment with a 6 MeV beam.
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