German healthcare group selects Varian linear accelerators for radiotherapy

23 March 2009

The HELIOS Kliniken Group is acquiring nine linear accelerators from Varian Medical Systems (NYSE: VAR), the majority of them equipped with RapidArc technology.

Berlin-based HELIOS, one of the three largest private clinic groups in Germany, offers radiotherapy at six hospitals in Krefeld, Wuppertal, Schwerin, Bad Saarow, Berlin-Zehlendorf and Berlin-Buch.

The new machines will be installed at each of these sites, replacing older models and adding capacity that will give more patients access to the most advanced cancer care. Each site will also receive a suite of Varian’s ARIA oncology information management software and Eclipse treatment planning software. Three of the hospitals will also receive a new GammaMed brachytherapy afterloader. The total value of the order, placed in February, is US$17 million.

“The new equipment will enable HELIOS to offer dynamic adaptive, high-precision radiotherapy for all patients and they have identified RapidArc as a major additional capability,” says Michael Sandhu, head of Varian’s Oncology Systems business in Europe. “Healthcare providers such as HELIOS have continued to invest strongly in radiotherapy equipment and software which enables them to offer patients modern and comfortable treatments. We are honoured to be working with Helios on this major project.”

For the first time, RapidArc treatments will be offered by HELIOS hospitals enabling image-guided intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) to be delivered up to eight times faster than is possible with conventional IMRT.

The new equipment will be installed in stages over the next two years. HELIOS, a business segment of the global health care company Fresenius, owns 62 hospitals across Germany.

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