Radiation therapy firm Varian Medical Systems of Palo Alto, CA, announced that doctors in the Netherlands have developed new ways to perform radiosurgery on benign acoustic tumors using Varian's RapidArc radiotherapy technology.
Researchers at VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam compared RapidArc with five-arc dynamic conformal arc radiosurgery for vestibular schwannoma, a benign tumor that affects hearing and balance. Treatment delivery time after patient setup was less than five minutes versus 20 minutes for dynamic conformal arc radiosurgery, according to the study.
Cancer patients at Vrije University Medical Center are treated on two Varian Clinac 2300 CD linear accelerators, a Trilogy linear accelerator, and the Novalis Tx radiosurgical suite of products, all equipped with RapidArc capability, Varian said.
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