by CyberKnife Miami | Oct 21, 2018 | Uncategorized
SAN ANTONIO — Aggressive, targeted radiation therapy delayed cancer progression and showed a strong signal toward improving overall survival (OS) in patients with oligometastatic disease, the SABR-COMET study found. At a median 27 months follow-up,...
by CyberKnife Miami | Sep 21, 2018 | Uncategorized
Cancer causes certain cells in the body to grow out of control, overwhelm normal cells, and impair the body’s functioning – sometimes fatally. Breast cancer is the second most common cancer in American women, with only skin cancer being more prevalent, according to...
by CyberKnife Miami | Aug 1, 2018 | Uncategorized
For 81-year-old Marilyn Gibson, it was a no-brainer: Would she be interested in having a single dose of radiation with CyberKnife to treat her breast cancer instead of the standard, multiple-dose treatment delivered over several weeks? Mrs. Gibson elected to be part...
by CyberKnife Miami | Oct 26, 2017 | Uncategorized
Kaiser Health News found that only 48 percent of eligible breast cancer patients today get the shorter regimen, in spite of the additional costs and inconvenience of the longer type. It’s not just Breast Cancer patients being treated with more radiation than...
by CyberKnife Miami | Oct 4, 2017 | Uncategorized
Breast cancer death rates declined almost 40 percent between 1989 and 2015, averting 322,600 deaths, the American Cancer Society reported Tuesday. Breast cancer death rates increased by 0.4 percent per year from 1975 to 1989, according to the study. After that,...
