Dutch Clinic is First in Country to Treat Cancer Patients With Elekta AB’s Agility Beam-Shaping Solution for Radiation Therapy

Nijmegen, THE NETHERLANDS, Oct. 15 – The first of three newly acquired Elekta Synergy® treatment systems equipped with Agility™* 160-leaf multi-leaf collimator (http://www.elekta.com/agility) (MLC) is now up and running clinically at Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center – making the clinic the first in the Netherlands to use Agility. The first patient, a 48-year-old woman, was treated on September 10 and clinicians have treated 70 additional patients since then, encompassing a wide range of cancers.