Varian Medical Systems Schedules Annual Stockholder Meeting in Palo Alto

PALO ALTO, Calif., Dec. 1, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Varian Medical Systems (NYSE: VAR) announced today that its Board of Directors has set the regular 2011 Annual Meeting of Stockholders for February 10, 2011 with a record date of December 15, 2010. The meeting will be held at Varian's corporate headquarters, 3100 Hansen Way, Palo Alto, CA 94304 at 4:30 p.m. PT.

The meeting will be webcast and can be accessed at Varian Medical Systems' website at http://www.varian.com/investor. To attend the meeting, please RSVP to Anne Rambo, at 650-424-5834, or anne.rambo@varian.com. The meeting will be recorded and a replay will be available on the investor relations page on the company's web site at http://www.varian.com/ where it will be archived for a year.

Varian Medical Systems, Inc., (NYSE:VAR) of Palo Alto, California is the world's leading supplier of equipment and software for treating cancer. The company is also a premier supplier of components including X-ray tubes and flat-panel detectors for medical, scientific, and industrial imaging. Varian Medical Systems employs approximately 5,300 people who are located at manufacturing sites in North America and Europe and in its 70 sales and support offices around the world. For more information, visit www.varian.com.

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