Medical resources everywhere are being stressed by rising levels of diseases that typically develop over lifetimes-cancer, for example. In many parts of the globe, resources for radiotherapy are limited. Still, leading institutions around the world are achieving encouraging clinical results with advanced techniques, such as 3-D conformal therapy and high-resolution IMRT. News of this work is spreading through scientific meetings among the global community of radiation oncologists. Seeing these results many radiation oncologists are convinced that, in a significant number of cases, advanced radiotherapy can be more effective for local control of tumors and substantially more economical than alternatives. For increasing numbers of institutions, this justifies investment in new systems to give patients better access to the new treatment modalities.

"With the technology developed in the last few years we are able to achieve higher control rates for cancerous tumors, and radiation oncologists around the world have a more compelling case for upgrading the radiotherapy systems that are available for their patients."
Prof. Volker Budach