CLEVELAND, May 2, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- ViewRay, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRAY) announced today that members of its Clinical Cooperative Think Tank (C2T2) gathered last week in Barcelona, Spain to discuss data from the nearly 3,000 patients treated using ViewRay's MRIdian MR image-guided radiotherapy system. The group also evaluated new clinical opportunities and potential future trials for this novel technology.
"MR-image guided radiation therapy is no longer a work in progress - it is a reality today, which has now been used to treat thousands of patients around the world in its more than four years of clinical use," said Ben J. Slotman, M.D., Ph.D., professor and chairman of Radiation Oncology at VU University Medical Center (VUmc). "Through the C2T2 collaborative group, we look forward to sharing clinical data and best practices with the broader oncology community, and ultimately provide the potential of improving the lives of cancer patients."
From its unique vantage point as the only clinical and non-research system capable of MR image-guided radiotherapy, MRIdian is revolutionizing the field of radiation oncology. By leveraging the high-definition anatomical detail provided by MR soft tissue imaging, MRIdian enables daily on-table treatment plan adaptation, allowing clinicians to quickly and dynamically adjust for anatomical changes that occur each day throughout the patient's course of treatment. Combined, these capabilities provide clinicians with the ability to improve targeting precision and thus deliver higher, and potentially more effective, radiation doses.
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"The C2T2 collaborative group is committed to investigating the promising clinical outcomes to date and potential new applications enabled by the precision and accuracy of MR-guidance and on-table adaptive radiotherapy," said Professor Vincenzo Valentini, M.D., Radiation Oncologist at Gemelli ART (Advanced Radiation Therapy) in Rome, Italy. "MR guided radiotherapy is unlocking a new paradigm in radiation medicine."
The C2T2 meeting was held in parallel with the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO) annual meeting, during which ViewRay also sponsored a clinical symposium titled, "Clinical Experience and Outcomes with MRIdian MR Image-Guided Radiation Therapy." The symposium, which yielded more than 400 attendees, featured clinicians from VU University Medical Center (VUmc) and University Hospital Heidelberg discussing their clinical experience with MRIdian MR image-guided radiation therapy. Both centers recently began patient treatments on the next generation MRIdian Linac system.
