If you are fighting cancer you want to choose the treatment option that will give you the best odds of beating the disease.
That’s why if you need radiation for your cancer, the experts at the CyberKnife Center of Miami – the leading cancer radiation treatment center in South Florida – want to make sure you do your homework and research CyberKnife – a non-invasive form of targeted radiation backed by three decades of science, research, studies and clinical trials.
CyberKnife: 30 Years of Data
CyberKnife delivers radiation with pinpoint accuracy directly to a tumor with a technology called stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT). It’s so accurate because of real-time monitoring that healthy surrounding tissue is left unharmed.
CyberKnife can be used to treat patients with prostate, lung, brain, spine, head and neck, liver, pancreas and kidney cancers. It can also be an alternative to surgery, or it can also be used for patients where surgery may not be an option.
According to Accuray, the maker of CyberKnife, there are nearly three decades of research showing how CyberKnife has benefitted patients.
CyberKnife: Success in Studies
On its website, CyberKnife lists about 175 different studies using the technology. There are more than 75 studies using CyberKnife on brain and spine cancer, 26 on abdominal cancer, 27 on pelvic cancer, 19 on lung cancer as well as studies on other cancers like breast, head and neck, pancreas, kidney, ocular and even veterinary cancers.
CyberKnife: Patient Success Stories
Studies provide one perspective, and patients provide another.
“I would not be alive without CyberKnife. I firmly believe that it saved my life,” says Maria, who was diagnosed with a benign six-centimeter tumor in her spine – just a few centimeters from her heart.
Because of its precarious location, surgery wasn’t an option. CyberKnife shrank Maria’s tumor, giving her hope for the future.
“It can basically save your life,” says Jose, a CyberKnife Miami patient, who was treated for bone cancer that spread to the lung.
“CyberKnife is an intelligent and logical choice,” says Ricardo, also a CyberKnife Miami patient, who chose CyberKnife treatment for colon cancer that spread to his liver.
Cancer treatment, Miami Florida
At CyberKnife Miami, we see the impact of the CyberKnife studies because we have been at the forefront of that research and of CyberKnife success stories because of our decades of experience.
“Some medical or cancer centers that have CyberKnife technology do not have as much experience as we have using it. So, they get scared when they see a big tumor and think it is not worth treating or are worried about complications. Other doctors feel if it is incurable why be aggressive? We feel the opposite. We feel why not try. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain, including the most precious gift of all, time,” says Dr. Mark Pomper, board-certified radiation oncologist and medical director of CyberKnife Miami.
“Because this is what we do all day, every day, we know what can and cannot be treated, and at the very least we are going to give it our best try,” says Dr. Pomper.
If you would like to find out more about treatment with CyberKnife, call us at 305-279-2900 or go to our website now for more information www.cyberknifemiami.com.