CyberKnife Cancer Center
The CyberKnife® Robotic Radiosurgery System is the world’s first and only commercially available radiosurgery system designed to treat tumors anywhere in the body with sub-millimeter accuracy.
Using image guidance technology and computer controlled robotics, the CyberKnife System is designed to continuously track, detect and correct for tumor and patient movement throughout the treatment. Because of its extreme precision, the CyberKnife System does not require invasive head or body frames to stabilize patient movement, vastly increasing the system’s flexibility.
Unlike traditional radiosurgery systems that can only treat tumors in the head and neck, the CyberKnife System can treat both intracranial and extracranial tumors. 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 System provides an additional option to many patients diagnosed with previously inoperable or surgically complex tumors.
News reports claim Patrick Swayze was treated with CyberKnife at Stanford. Locally, Memorial Hospital treated more than 240 patients in 2008 alone.
Memorial Cyberknife has been #1 in 2007 & 2008 for treating more lung cases than any other Cyberknife Center in the world and is the 10th busiest overall in the world.
In addition to treating cancer in the cranial (head) area - CyberKnife's precision robotic tracking system lets doctors treat cancer in other places on a person's body, including the spine, liver, pelvis, ovaries and lungs. The use of CyberKnife to treat lung cancer has jumped recently, with more than 5000 cases treated world-wide.
