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As part of a 70 million pounds Sterling investment to mark its 75thanniversary, The London Clinic will introduce the radiotherapy services to itspatients for the first time when its new state-of-the-art cancer treatmentcentre is opened in 2009.
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As well as the Trilogy accelerator, the hospital has also acquired asecond treatment machine -- a Varian Clinac(R) iX linear accelerator -- aswell as a full suite of Eclipse(TM) treatment planning software.
Malcolm Miller, Chief Executive of The London Clinic, says: "This latestinvestment further highlights The London Clinic's long-term commitment toimproving cancer care. This new technology will be core to the serviceoffering in our new dedicated cancer treatment centre and will ensure we canprovide our cancer patients with the most advanced radiotherapy treatmentsavailable.
"Following comprehensive clinical and technical evaluations, we areconfident Varian Medical Systems is ideally suited to meet the needs of TheLondon Clinic and our patients."
"As the first hospital in the UK to introduce RapidArc treatments onTrilogy, we will be able to carry out highly conformal 4D image guidedradiotherapy that can be delivered far more quickly than with other IMRTsystems," adds Dr. David Landau, Cancer Centre Steering Group, The LondonClinic. "The flexibility of Trilogy to deliver RapidArc, stereotacticradiosurgery and dynamic IMRT will also provide the clinic with the ability topersonalise radiotherapy treatments for every patient."
Varian's new RapidArc capability, introduced for the first time at theAmerican Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO) meeting in LosAngeles this week, enables highly conformal treatment fields to be deliveredvery quickly. It allows clinicians to achieve precisely-sculpted 3-D dosedistribution with a single 360-degree rotation of the linear acceleratorgantry. RapidArc treatments can be delivered far more quickly than existingIMRT (intensity modulated radiotherapy) techniques, with beam times of just 2to 3 minutes.
A fully-accessorized Trilogy accelerator, equipped with Varian's On-BoardImager(R) for fast and effective image-guidance, is capable of offering allstandard radiation therapies as well as the most advanced treatments such asintensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT), image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) andwhole-body stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS).
"We are delighted that The London Clinic has decided to enter a long-termagreement with Varian and we look forward to expanding access to the world'smost advanced radiotherapy treatments for the UK's cancer patients," saidDavid Scott, Varian's UK sales manager.
About Varian Medical Systems
Varian Medical Systems, Inc., of Palo Alto, California, is the world'sleading manufacturer of medical devices and software for treating cancer andother medical conditions with radiotherapy, radiosurgery, proton therapy, andbrachytherapy. The company supplies informatics software for managingcomprehensive cancer clinics, radiotherapy centers and medical oncologypractices. Varian is a premier supplier of tubes and digital detectors for X-ray imaging in medical, scientific, and industrial applications and alsosupplies X-ray imaging products for cargo screening and industrial inspection.Varian Medical Systems employs approximately 4,400 people who are located atmanufacturing sites in North America and Europe and in its 60 sales andsupport offices around the world. In Europe, the company operatesmanufacturing
