What is CyberKnife?

The CyberKnife^® Robotic Radiosurgery System is a non-invasive alternative to surgery for the treatment of both cancerous and non-cancerous tumors anywhere in the body, including the prostate, lung, brain, spine, liver, pancreas and kidney. The treatment – which delivers beams of high dose radiation to tumors with extreme accuracy – offers new hope to patients worldwide.

 

Though its name may conjure images of scalpels and surgery, the CyberKnife treatment involves no cutting. In fact, the CyberKnife System is the world’s first and only robotic radiosurgery system designed to treat tumors throughout the body non-invasively. It provides a pain-free, non-surgical option for patients who have inoperable or surgically complex tumors, or who may be looking for an alternative to surgery.

Key Advantages

• Treats tumors anywhere in the body
• Continually tracks, detects and corrects for tumor and patient movement throughout the treatment
• Delivers high-dose radiation with sub-millimeter accuracy, minimizing damage to surrounding healthy tissue
• Treats tumors from virtually unlimited directions with flexible robotic mobility
• Provides an option for patients diagnosed with inoperable or operable surgically complex tumors
• Treats patients in as few as one to five visits
• Expands treatment to children because it is painless and requires no frame
• Improves patients quality of life during and after treatment
  • Non-invasive alternative to surgery
  • Pain free and requires no anesthesia
  • Minimal side effects
  • Outpatient procedure with little or no recovery time
  • Allows for an immediate return to normal activities

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