Cancer Patients in North Wales to Gain Access to Varian's RapidArc Radiotherapy ...(go-ahead by the Welsh Assembly in April ...),Health

Date:5/7/2009

go-ahead by the Welsh Assembly in April 2009 as part of a ten-year strategy to upgrade radiotherapy provision in Wales. She said Varian equipment was selected after a rigorous tender process. "We are very excited about being able to offer our patients image-guided and RapidArc treatments," she added. "We already use Varian equipment so it also makes sense from an interface and training perspective to acquire the latest Varian technology."

With RapidArc, Varian's Clinac accelerator can target beams at a tumor while continuously rotating around the patient, delivering a precise and efficient treatment in single or multiple arcs. Conventional IMRT treatments are slower and more difficult for radiotherapy radiographers because they target tumors using a complex sequence of fixed beams from multiple angles.

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, scientific, and industrial applications and also supplies X-ray imaging products for cargo screening and industrial inspection. Varian Medical Systems employs approximately 5,100 people who are located at manufacturing sites in North America and Europe and in its 79 sales and support offices around the world. For more information, visit http://www.varian.com/.

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