Varian’s BrachyTherapy operation supplies products for treating cancer from the inside out by placing small radiation sources within tumors or into the area where a tumor has been surgically removed.

Record orders, revenues, and profits. Annual net orders increased 16 percent, to $49 million; revenues increased 28 percent, to $48 million.

The Acuity™ Brachytherapy Suite. This product enables clinicians to combine imaging and treatment technologies in one procedure room for real-time, image-guided brachytherapy.

A new applicator for specialized delivery of high-dose-rate brachytherapy in nasopharynx cancer cases.

The Vitesse™ brachytherapy planning tool for streamlining prostate cancer treatments. This workflow module enables doctors to quickly acquire prostate images with high-dose-rate catheters already in place, export the data to the BrachyVision treatment planning program, and treat the patient in a single procedure room.

Accelerated acceptance of partial-breast irradiation techniques in the treatment of some breast cancers, resulting in escalating demand for high-dose-rate brachytherapy afterloaders.

BRACHYTHERAPY PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

• VariSource,™ GammaMedPlus,™ and MammoSource™ high-dose-rate brachytherapy delivery systems
• VariSeed™ brachytherapy treatment planning software for prostate seed implants
• BrachyVision™ treatment planning software for high-dose-rate and low-dose-rate brachytherapy
• Vitesse™ brachytherapy planning tool
• Acuity™ Brachytherapy Suite for image-guided brachytherapy

FACILITIES

Charlottesville, Virginia
Crawley, England
Haan, Germany