Varian Medical Systems Schedules Annual Stockholder Meeting in Palo Alto

PALO ALTO, Calif., Dec. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Varian Medical Systems announced today that its Board of Directors has scheduled the company's Annual Meeting of Stockholders for February 14, 2008 with a record date of December 17, 2007. The meeting will be held at the Sheraton Palo Alto, 625 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, California at 4:30 p.m. PT.

The meeting will be webcast by CCBN 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.

The webcast will also be distributed over CCBN's Investor Distribution Network to both institutional and individual investors. Individual investors can listen to the call through CCBN's individual investor center at http://www.fulldisclosure.com/ or by visiting any of the investor sites in CCBN's Individual Investor Network. Institutional investors can access the call via CCBN's password-protected event management site, StreetEvents (http://www.streetevents.com/).

Varian Medical Systems, Inc., of Palo Alto, California, is the world's leading manufacturer of medical devices and software for treating cancer and other medical conditions with radiotherapy, radiosurgery, proton therapy, and brachytherapy. The company supplies informatics software for managing comprehensive cancer clinics, radiotherapy centers and medical oncology practices. Varian is a premier supplier of tubes and digital detectors for X-ray imaging in medical, scientific, and industrial applications and also supplies X-ray imaging products for cargo screening and industrial inspection.

Varian Medical Systems employs approximately 4,200 people who are located at manufacturing sites in North America and Europe and in its 56 sales and support offices around the world. For more information, visit http://www.varian.com/.

FOR INFORMATION CONTACT: Spencer Sias (650) 424-5782 spencer.sias@varian.com