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Article: Pioneering Cancer Center in India Will Expand Its RapidArc[R] Radiotherapy Program.
- Article from:
- Cancer Weekly
- Article date:
- November 3, 2009
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A hospital that is using RapidArc radiotherapy to treat cancers of the head & neck and cervix is announcing it will be expanding its use for treatment of other cancers. Yashoda Cancer Institute in Hyderabad has found it can deliver image-guided, intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) faster and more precisely using the RapidArc technology from Varian Medical Systems (NYSE:VAR) (see also Cervical Cancer).
"We were very excited to become the first hospital in India to introduce RapidArc treatments earlier this year and the results so far give us great satisfaction," says Dheeraj Gorukanti, chief executive officer of Yashoda Hospitals Group. "We believe it has the ...