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A 76-year-old man with prostate cancer has become the first radiotherapy patient in the world whose treatment was planned using new RapidPlan knowledge-based software from Varian Medical Systems. Specialists at Royal Surrey County Hospital in Guildford, England, carried out the advanced intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) treatment using RapidPlan to plan and guide the process.
January 16, 2015 
New technology installed at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) Hollings Cancer Center’s Mount Pleasant location now offers improved imaging capabilities for patients, as well as several types of external beam radiation therapy.
January 16, 2015 
A new stereotactic radiosurgery system provides the same or a higher level of accuracy in targeting cancer tumors — but offers greater comfort to patients and the ability to treat multiple tumors at once — when compared to other radiation therapy stereotactic systems, according to researchers at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.
October 14, 2014 Varian Medical Systems broke ground on new construction that will expand its current Salt Lake City manufacturing facility and allow for the consolidation of operations currently underway outside of Utah to ultimately create 1,000 new full time jobs in the state over the next 20 years
September 24, 2014 
September 10, 2014 — Varian Medical Systems will introduce InSightive Analytics, a new interactive dashboard and data visualization tool for oncology professionals, at the annual meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) Sept. 14-17 in San Francisco.
September 10, 2014 Arc-based radiation therapy continues to gain ground as physicians opt for treatment options that not only are more precisely tailored to each tumor site, but also delivered in fewer visits, which is significantly more convenient for both patients and cancer centers. With a variety of radiation therapy techniques available, from intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and whole-body irradiation (WBI) to proton therapy and stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT), cancer centers around the country are now, more than ever, able to offer patients a more effective solution for targeting and treating their diseases.
September 03, 2014 
August 12, 2014 — New technology installed at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) Hollings Cancer Center in Charleston offers patients a nonsurgical, specialized form of treatment that can be completed in five or fewer outpatient sessions, each lasting 20 minutes or less. The first patient will be treated on Aug. 13.
August 12, 2014 
July 31, 2014 — Varian Medical Systems announced its Aria oncology information system (OIS) has been certified to demonstrate stage 1 and 2 meaningful use (MU) of an electronic health record (EHR).
July 31, 2014 
Medical researchers have confirmed the Edge radiosurgery system from Varian Medical Systems can deliver dose to a targeted tumor with sub-millimeter isocenter accuracy. The researchers, from the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown in Lisbon, Portugal, and other teams from the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, Michigan, made seven scientific presentations about the Edge system during the 2014 American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) meeting from July 20-24.
July 22, 2014 July 18, 2014 — Varian Medical Systems will introduce Qumulate QA, a new cloud-based QA data management and analysis tool, at the 2014 annual meeting of the American Association for Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) in Austin, Texas, June 20-23.
July 18, 2014