Varian Medical Systems

Varian Medical Systems announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire India’s Cancer Treatment Services International (CTSI) for $283 million. Privately held, CTSI operates the American Oncology Institute in Hyderabad and 10 multidisciplinary — radiation, medical and surgical oncology — cancer centers across the Indian subcontinent, as well as a U.S.-based Oncology Solutions division that provides cancer care professional services to healthcare providers worldwide.

IBA (Ion Beam Applications S.A.) announced the successful commissioning of the Varian Halcyon at the Radiation Oncology Center at MedStar Southern Maryland Hospital Center, based on an IBA Dosimetry independent beam scanning solution.

IBA (Ion Beam Applications S.A.) announced it has entered into an agreement with Varian with the goal of validating the Dolphin transmission detector for online monitoring of patient treatment.

IBA (Ion Beam Applications S.A.) announced in November the acceptance and beam model validation of the first Varian Halcyon machine in Europe to go clinical, at the hospital UZ Leuven in Belgium, using IBA Dosimetry’s Blue Phantom water phantom system.

According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), precision-based medicine is an emerging approach for disease ...