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CENTER VALLEY, Pa., Feb. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- TechPrecision Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: TPCS) ("TechPrecision", or "the Company"), an industry leading manufacturer of precision, large-scale fabricated and machined metal components and systems with customers in the alternative energy, cleantech, medical, nuclear, defense, aerospace and other commercial industries, today announced that its Ranor subsidiary has received orders totaling over $1.1 million for various components...
Memphis, Tennessee, Feb 21, 2012 - (JCN Newswire) - Hitachi Ltd. today announced that it has entered into an agreement with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital to provide its proton beam therapy (PBT) system. This next-generation technology has spot scanning capability for treating certain forms of cancer. The agreement includes PBT system maintenance for 10 years following completion of the systems' installation.The system will be installed at St. Jude...
By David Douglas NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Patients with liver tumors called hepatocellular carcinomas and who have few other treatment options are likely to benefit from proton beam radiation therapy, Japanese researchers report in the journal Cancer. Lead investigator Dr. Masaharu Hata told Reuters Health: "Proton beam therapy was given safely and effectively to a wide spectrum of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma." Hata and colleagues at the University of Tsukuba took a look...
