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Date:3/20/2008

regivers, and physicians," said Len Grenier, president and CEO of Cogent Medical Systems. "It distributes essential information to the patient through a personalized portal on the Internet, empowering survivors to become more active in their ongoing recovery. A survivorship program with Equicare CS will allow cancer centers to continue providing world-class care and manage outcomes for years after a patient's initial treatment has concluded."

"Varian technology for advanced radiation therapy has been instrumental in the fight against cancer, significantly prolonging hundreds of thousands of cancer patients' lives over the years," said Dow Wilson, president of Varian's Oncology Systems business. "This agreement to provide our customers with access to Equicare CS is part of our ongoing commitment to the quality of survivorship."

About Cogent Health Solutions

Cogent Health Solutions is a developer of case management solutions for global healthcare markets, with a focus on disease management for health care providers, patients and their families. Cogent is focused on setting the new benchmark for patient management in cancer treatment facilities around the globe. For more information, visit http://www.cogenths.com/.

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 4,600 pe
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