Penn Medicine is the first healthcare provider in the world to treat a cancer patient with next-generation radiation technology that delivers therapies in record time.
According to Penn, the Halcyon radiotherapy system from Varian Medical Systems has the ability to shorten the amount of time patients spend in treatment, and in some cases can cut the length of each session by more than half.
“We helped Varian develop the technology over the past couple of years,” says James Metz, MD, chair of Radiation Oncology at Penn.
