STOCKHOLM, Sweden--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Elekta, a world leader in advanced radiation treatment of cancer and brain disorders, has recently won a tender to supply Velindre Cancer Centre, near Cardiff in South East Wales, UK, with advanced medical equipment and software for intensity modulated and image guided radiation therapy (IMRT and IGRT). With the first system to be delivered in the spring of 2007, this replacement will commence treatment of patients in early 2008. This will be followed by a second unit scheduled to be introduced into service later that year which will increase the overall complement of linear accelerators to six.
