le> Varian Medical Systems Schedules Year End Investor Meeting In New York City PALO ALTO, CA, - November 3, 2003 - Varian Medical Systems (NYSE: VAR) announced today that it will host an investor relations meeting to discuss fiscal year-end 2003 on Wednesday, November 12, 2003. The meeting will be held at the Omni Berkshire Place, 21 East 52nd St., New York at 4:00pm eastern time. If you would like to attend the meeting in New York, please RSVP to Anne Rambo, at 650-424-5834, or anne.rambo@varian.com. The meeting will be webcast by CCBN and can be accessed at Varian Medical Systems' web site at www.varian.com. 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 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 (www.streetevents.com). Additional information on Varian Medical Systems may be obtained on the company's website.