Uber Nerve Sparing refers to a proprietary, ultra-precise radiation therapy technique used primarily for prostate cancer treatment like at the CyberKnife Center of Miami.
It is designed to aggressively target cancer cells while actively shielding the delicate, microscopic nerve bundles that control erectile function and urinary continence.
The technique achieves this precision through three main pillars:
- Strategic Dose Shaping: Deliberately minimizing radiation exposure to the critical nerve bundles surrounding the prostate, avoiding the “collateral damage” often seen in traditional radiation.
- Advanced Real-Time Imaging: Actively tracking a moving target—like a shifting prostate—while identifying sensitive structures throughout the procedure.
- Extreme Precision Delivery: Placing radiation beams with sub-millimeter accuracy to avoid unintended damage to surrounding healthy tissue.
Why It Matters
This approach aims to drastically improve a patient’s post-treatment quality of life by reducing the common risks of long-term erectile dysfunction and urinary incontinence.
The nerves that control erections and urination run very close to the surface of the prostate gland. In the past, side effects like erectile dysfunction and loss of bladder control were often seen as the price of surviving prostate cancer. This technology is a game changer and is designed to hit the tumor aggressively like a laser while keeping those critical nerves completely intact, and at the same time killing the cancer.
Click here to see Dr. Mark Scholz with the Prostate Cancer Research Institute talk about damage to nerve bundles from surgery and other radical treatments, and treatment options for incontinence after prostate cancer treatment, especially surgery (since incontinence after radiation is very rare).
For more information about prostate cancer treatment with CyberKnife Radiosurgery call the worldwide leading CyberKnife experts at the CyberKnife Center of Miami at 305-279-2900, and go to our prostate cancer treatment website now.