Radiation therapy firm Varian Medical Systems announced that a patient with head and neck cancer has become the first to be treated with the company's Halcyon system.
The patient was treated at Penn Medicine in Philadelphia. The total patient time in the treatment room, including setup, imaging, three minutes of beam time, and patient discharge, was 13 minutes, according to Varian. A treatment like this using other radiation technology can take 10 minutes of beam time and 20 minutes of total treatment time, the company said.
Varian launched Halcyon in May 2017 as a platform designed to be easier for radiation therapy providers to operate.
