Radiation therapy firm Varian Medical Systems has won a contract to equip a new two-room proton therapy center at the PTC St. Petersburg Center of Nuclear Medicine of the International Institute of Biological Systems in Russia, the company said.
Under terms of the agreement, Varian will provide the new center with a ProBeam system as well as its Aria information management and Eclipse treatment planning software products. The equipment order is valued at about $50 million U.S. (38 million euros), not including service; equipment delivery and installation is expected to start in 2014, and patient treatments are scheduled to begin in 2016, according to Varian.
The equipment order was placed by Owen Kane Oncology Equipment in New York, which is supplying the system to the center in St. Petersburg, Varian said.
