Varian Medical Systems Management To Present at the Pacific Growth Equities Life Sciences Conference

Palo Alto, CA – June 2, 2004 The management of Varian Medical Systems, Inc., (NYSE:VAR) is scheduled to appear at 4:00 p.m. PST on June 9, 2004 at the Pacific Growth Equities Life Sciences Growth Conference in San Francisco, Calif. Elisha W. Finney, Vice President and CFO, will talk about advances in radiation therapy for cancer including image-guided and stereotactic radiotherapies; X-ray imaging technology; and the company's market position.

The conference is being held at the Mark Hopkins InterContinental Hotel in San Francisco. The presentation will be audio webcast live and accessible via the company’s investor relations website at http://investor.varian.com.The archived webcast will be available at that site approximately one hour after the presentation ends.
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