PALO ALTO, Calif., Dec. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Varian Medical Systems (NYSE: VAR) announced today that its Board of Directors has set the regular 2009 Annual Meeting of Stockholders for February 12, 2009 with a record date of December 15, 2008. The meeting will be held at the Crowne Plaza Cabana, 4290 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, California at 4:30 p.m. PT.

The meeting will be webcast by Thomson Financial and can be accessed at Varian Medical Systems' website at http://www.varian.com/investor. To attend the meeting, please RSVP to Anne Rambo, at 650-424-5834, or anne.rambo@varian.com. The meeting will be recorded and a replay will be available on the investor relations page on the company's web site at http://www.varian.com/ where it will be archived for a year.

The webcast will also be distributed over Thomson's Investor Distribution Network to both institutional and individual investors. Individual investors can listen to the call through Thomson's individual investor center at http://www.fulldisclosure.com/ or by visiting any of the investor sites in Thomson's Individual Investor Network. Institutional investors can access the call via Thomson's password-protected event management site, StreetEvents (http://www.streetevents.com/ ).

Varian Medical Systems, Inc., (NYSE: VAR) of Palo Alto, California is the world's leading
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