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Article: New Jersey Doctors Now Delivering Non-Invasive, Image-Guided Radiosurgery Treatments Using Novalis Tx(TM) Technology.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- June 10, 2009
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Minutes after receiving a single, powerful non-invasive radiosurgery treatment, John Sisco, 64, happily walked out of the treatment room without any need for an overnight stay in the hospital, and left for home. Doctors at Somerset Medical Center, in Somerville, New Jersey, used the advanced Novalis Tx(TM) platform from Varian Medical Systems (NYSE:VAR) and BrainLAB to deliver the accurate, image-guided treatment designed to eradicate an abnormal tangle of blood vessels, called an artereo-venous malformation (AVM), that had grown near Sisco's brainstem (see also Surgery).
Over a year earlier, Sisco's doctors had surgically removed about 60% of the AVM, but due to ...