1st Cancer Patient in France Treated with Varian's RapidArc* IMRT

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A 60-year-old prostate cancer patient has become the

first person in France to be treated using RapidArc™ technology from

Varian Medical Systems for fast and precise forms of

intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT). Each of his treatments took just 75 seconds,

several times faster than conventional IMRT treatments. Dr. Pascal

Fenoglietto, the hospital's chief medical physicist for scientific

projects, presented the case to colleagues at the annual meeting of the

French Society of Radiation Oncologists in Paris on November

12-14.Click on below link for the full story:<http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/131842.php>