Prestigious London Hospital Enters Long-Term Agreement with
Varian Medical Systems
The London Clinic Will Be First in UK to Offer
RapidArc™ and Trilogy® Treatments
London, England, October
30th 2007 – The London Clinic is set to be the
first UK hospital to offer cancer patients advanced RapidArc™
treatments as part of a long-term collaboration with Varian Medical
Systems. The London Clinic, one of the UK’s most established
independent hospitals, will also be the first in the UK to acquire
an advanced Trilogy® all-in-one linear accelerator.
As part of a £70 million investment to mark
its 75th anniversary, The London Clinic will introduce
the radiotherapy services to its patients for the first time when
its new state-of-the-art cancer treatment centre is opened in
2009.
As well as the Trilogy accelerator, the
hospital has also acquired a second treatment machine – a Varian
Clinac® iX linear accelerator – as well as a full suite of Eclipse™
treatment planning software.
Malcolm Miller, Chief Executive of The London
Clinic, says: “This latest investment further highlights The London
Clinic’s long-term commitment to improving cancer care. This new
technology will be core to the service offering in our new
dedicated cancer treatment centre and will ensure we can provide
our cancer patients with the most advanced radiotherapy treatments
available.
“Following comprehensive clinical and
technical evaluations, we are confident Varian Medical Systems is
ideally suited to meet the needs of The London Clinic and our
patients.”
“As the first hospital in the UK to introduce
RapidArc treatments on Trilogy, we will be able to carry out highly
conformal 4D image guided radiotherapy that can be delivered far
more quickly than with other IMRT systems,” adds David Landau,
Cancer Centre Steering Group, The London Clinic. “The flexibility
of Trilogy to deliver RapidArc, stereotactic radiosurgery and
dynamic IMRT will also provide the clinic with the ability to
personalise radiotherapy treatments for every patient.”
Varian’s new RapidArc capability, introduced
for the first time at the American Society for Therapeutic
Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO) meeting in Los Angeles this week,
enables highly conformal treatment fields to be delivered very
quickly. It allows clinicians to achieve precisely-sculpted 3-D
dose distribution with a single 360-degree rotation of the linear
accelerator gantry. RapidArc treatments can be delivered far more
quickly than existing IMRT (intensity modulated radiotherapy)
techniques, with beam times of just 2 to 3 minutes.
A fully-accessorized Trilogy accelerator,
equipped with Varian’s On-Board Imager® for fast and effective
image-guidance, is capable of offering all standard radiation
therapies as well as the most advanced treatments such as intensity
modulated radiotherapy (IMRT), image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) and
whole-body stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS).
“We are delighted that The London Clinic
has decided to enter a long-term agreement with Varian and we look
forward to expanding access to the world’s most advanced
radiotherapy treatments for the UK’s cancer patients,” said David
Scott, Varian’s UK sales manager.