Your body is a hard-working machine every second of every day.
- Every minute your heart beats on average about 75 beats.
- Blood vessels of all sizes and circumferences are carrying blood to make sure you have the right amount of oxygen and nutrients from your toes to your head.
- Your brain is processing information.
- Your digestive system is churning.
- Your bladder is filling.
- You are breathing.
And your body is doing much of this without you knowing what’s happening on the inside. So, even if you are lying still — as is often required with radiation treatment for cancer – your body is in constant motion.
That’s why if you do need radiation, you want technology that can move with your body, track a tumor with pinpoint accuracy and leave healthy tissue unharmed. In other words, you want radiation with CyberKnife.
CyberKnife focuses radiation directly on the tumor with a technology called stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT). It can be used to treat patients with prostate, lung, brain, spine, head and neck, liver, pancreas and kidney cancers as well as some noncancerous conditions like trigeminal neuralgia and acoustic neuromas. It can also be an alternative to surgery, or it can also be used for patients where surgery may not be an option.
The CyberKnife Advantage
CyberKnife uses a robotic radiation system along with real-time image guidance to move and bend around a patient “to deliver radiation doses from potentially thousands of unique beam angles, significantly expanding the possible positions to concentrate radiation to the tumor while minimizing dose to surrounding healthy tissue,” according to Accuray, the maker of CyberKnife.
Here’s why that matters. Imagine a stationary faucet trying to pour water in a glass that keeps moving. There would be a lot of splashing. CyberKnife is more like a faucet that moves with the glass, as shown in this video, to prevent any splashing.
“The patient could change their position or move their head, even slightly. The patient could cough. Muscles tense and relax. The CyberKnife System is the only device designed to accommodate all forms of patient and tumor motion, even while the treatment is being delivered. With its motion adaptive delivery technology, the CyberKnife System enables smaller treatment margins around the tumor, minimizing the amount of healthy tissue exposed to high-dose radiation,” says Accuray.
Cancer Treatment Miami
“CyberKnife is the most advanced radiosurgery technique available for the treatment of cancerous and non-cancerous lesions and tumors throughout the body,” according to the experts at the CyberKnife Center of Miami.
And we have been treating patients with CyberKnife for more than 20 years. In fact, CyberKnife Miami opened our doors in 2003, becoming only the 11th CyberKnife center in the United States at that time.
Here are a few other benefits of cancer treatment with CyberKnife:
- Excellent control of tumors
- Lower risk of damage to healthy tissue
- Better quality of life while undergoing treatment
- Fewer treatments than with traditional radiation
- Most areas of the body can receive multiple treatments with CyberKnife, and areas can be retreated.
CyberKnife Miami believes that not only does precision matter, but so does expertise. And we have that expertise to help you or your loved one with a cancer diagnosis. We are among the most experienced CyberKnife teams worldwide because we’re among those doing it the longest, and that can make a big difference in your outcome. It’s also why patients come to us from all over the world and doctor referral is not necessary.
If you are interested in learning more about CyberKnife treatments call CyberKnife Miami at 305-279-2900 or go to our website now www.cyberknifemiami.com.