Ajou University Hospital Becomes First in Korea to Treat Using RapidArc(TM) Radiotherapy Technology from Varian Medic...(fficult for radiotherapists because they...),Health

"RapidArc is a very effective way of delivering advanced radiotherapy treatments to many tumors more quickly while reducing the dose to surrounding healthy tissue," said Dr. Chun. "We have three linear accelerators here and we use them to treat over 100 patients each day, so the new RapidArc-equipped machine has to treat many patients efficiently while performing more advanced treatment techniques."

Ajou University Hospital's department of radiation oncology sees 3,600 cancer patients each year. Such a heavy workload results in mounting waiting lists and Dr. Chun believes RapidArc is a good way to relieve pressure on these waiting lists without compromising the quality of the treatments offered. The hospital has become the first in East Asia to offer RapidArc treatments.

Jimmy Lee, Varian's regional sales manager, says, "Ajou University Hospital is well known for its pioneering approach, routinely using techniques such as IMRT, image-guided radiotherapy, respiratory gating and radiosurgery in order to offer its patients the most modern treatments possible. It can now add the leading volumetric arc therapy technique to this list and this is good news for patients throughout Korea."

Editorial contact: Neil Madle, Varian Medical Systems, +44 7786 526068

About Varian Medical Systems

Varian Medical Systems, Inc., of Palo Alto, California, is the world's leading manufacturer of medical devices and software for treating cancer and other medical conditions with radiotherapy, radiosurgery, proton therapy, and brachytherapy. The company supplies informatics software for managing comprehensive cancer clinics, radiotherapy centers and medical oncology practices. Varian is a premier supplier of tubes and digital detectors for X-ray imaging in medical, scie
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