400th Treatment at Hyderabad

Doctors at Yashoda in Hyderabad have now treated 400 patients with RapidArc on a single machine. "We are proud to become the first hospital in Asia to reach this milestone and we will continue to be at the forefront of advanced radiotherapy delivery in the future," said Dr. Rao. "With RapidArc we are able to give many more patients access to advanced cancer care."


RapidArc at Secunderabad

Yashoda Hospital also recently upgraded the Varian Clinac® medical linear accelerator at its Secunderabad facility with RapidArc capability to meet a growing demand for treatment. In the six years since the Secunderabad facility opened, more than 6,200 patients have been treated with this Varian linear accelerator. "By adding image-guidance and RapidArc capability to this Varian machine, we will be better able to keep pace with the huge demand for treatments," says Dr. Rao.

According to the Cancer Foundation of India, it is estimated that at any given point of time there are 2.0 to 2.5 million cancer cases requiring cancer treatment in India and this number is increasing by 10,000 new cancer cases each year.

Editorial contact: Neil Madle, Varian Medical Systems, +44 7786 526068

*Examples of published research on this subject:

Stereotactic body radiation therapy for inoperable early stage lung cancer. Timmerman R, Paulus R, Galvin J, Michalski J, Straube W, Bradley J, Fakiris A, Bezjak A, Videtic G, Johnstone D, Fowler J, Gore E, Choy H. Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

McDonald, F., et al. "Clinical Implementation of Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (Vmat) Image-Guided Stereotactic Radiotherapy Using Active Breathing Control (Abc) for Small Volume Lung Tumours." Lung Cancer 67 Supplement 1 (2010): S29-S29

McGrath, Samuel D., et al. "Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy for Delivery of Hypofractionated Stereotactic Lung Radiotherapy: A Dosimetric and Treatment Efficiency Analysis." Radiotherapy and Oncology 95 2 (2010): 153-157.

Verbakel, Wilko F. A. R., et al. "Rapid Delivery of Stereotactic Radiotherapy for Peripheral Lung Tumors Using Volumetric Intensity-Modulated Arcs." Radiotherapy and Oncology 93 1 (2009): 122-1224.

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 5,000 people who are located at manufacturing sites in North America, China, 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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