CyberKnife : The Non-Invasive and Virtually Painless Cure for Cancer
The CyberKnife represents an entirely new approach to radiosurgery. The CyberKnife is not a knife at all, but a cutting edge radiation tool that effectively eradicates tumors and lesions. Moreover, the Miami CyberKnife Centers can perform this surgery without any of the harsh side effects of a traditional surgery, including no incisions, anesthesia, or rehabilitation time.
CyberKnife technology provides hope for those patients who may have received the maximum allowable dose of radiation or have been told their condition was untreatable.
The revolutionary CyberKnife procedure has an unfailing record in removing cancers, tumors, lesions, and treating functional disorders for more than 10,000 patients across the globe. Many patients had been told they had inoperable tumors but were successfully treated with the CyberKnife Robotic Radiosurgery System.
“The CyberKnife System is the world’s first and only commercially available radiosurgery system designed to treat tumors anywhere in the body with sub-millimeter accuracy.” The System uses image guidance technology and computer controlled robotics to continuously track, detect and correct for tumor and patient movement throughout the treatment.
Unlike traditional radiosurgery systems that can only treat tumors in the head and neck, the CyberKnife System has the capability of treating tumors both within and outside of the skull. “In fact, extracranial treatments currently represent more than 50 percent of CyberKnife System procedures in the United States, including those of the spine, lung, prostate, liver and pancreas.”
“The CyberKnife can deliver radiation to various, difficult to target sections of the body including the brain, spine, liver, lungs, head, neck, and other areas that traditional methods or systems, such as radiation therapy or the gamma knife, cannot reach.” The non-surgical and non-invasive technology requires no anesthesia and does not present the same risks as traditional surgery.
The CyberKnife provides the surgeon incomparable flexibility in targeting tumors and lesions utilizing a compact, lightweight linear accelerator mounted on a robotic arm. Advanced image technology tracks patient and target position during treatment, ensuring precision without the use of an invasive stereotactic head frame. “The CyberKnife with its Dynamic Tracking Software is cleared to provide radiosurgery for lesions anywhere in the body when radiation treatment is indicated. In addition, this system treats tumors at body sites, most of which are unreachable by other stereotactic systems.”
Thus far, over 10,000 patients have been treated with the CyberKnife Robotic Radiosurgery System. Treatments can cost 20% to 45% less than conventional radiosurgery and is more cost-effective than a regular hospital admission.
