Cancer treatment for prostate liver, head using CyberKnife.

In search of saving lives, the St. Joseph’s Mercy Hospital wrestled with many radiation oncology systems vendor along with CyberKnife of Accuracy Inc. Finally, after tough negotiation and in-dept study decided to buy CyberKnife, which is a robotic machine which delivers computer plotted doses of radiation with extreme precision and provides a new hope of providing extra months or years to the life to the patients. Just 2 weeks old and the hospital have already handled over 250 inquires.

Morce LLC has also set up its two CyberKnife Centers one in Miami and the other in Florida Palm Beach Gardens, close to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. http://www.morsecyberknife.com

CyberKnife is not alone, it is accompanied by many machines with equivalently deliver the same precise treatment for Cancer and tumors. One of such machines is TomoTherapy, by TomoTherapy Inc. in Madison. Unlike CyberKnife, this robot sends radiation in a 360 degree field. This flexibility helps in treating multiple cancer sites with great accuracy. This flexibility is not available in CyberKnife.

According to the specialist all such machines bear fairly similar characteristics; it is up to the cancer care centers and the experienced doctors to handle the radiosurgery machines and use the technology to extend maximum benefit to the cancer patients and how well the patents are provided relevant education. Patients should be giving to understand that the aim of radiation in not to eradicate the tumor for good but radiation in helpful in stopping the tumor or slowing it down from spreading increasing the span of life.

According to the doctors CyberKnife is mostly used for treatment of prostrate, pancreas, liver and lungs cancer, extra cranial and brain tumors, facial pain syndrome and arteriovenous malfunctions.

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