A Robotic Radiosurgery Treatment Called Cyber knife Uses Radiation Therapy To Treat Tumors Non-Surgically

Cyber knife
Cyber knife 

The CyberKnife-System is a non-invasive treatment for cancerous and non-cancerous tumours, as well as other conditions that require radiation therapy. It is used to treat conditions in the prostate, lung, brain, spine, head and neck, liver, pancreas, and kidney, and can be used as an alternative to surgery or for patients with inoperable or surgically complex tumours. Treatments with the Cyber Knife are typically completed in 1 to 5 sessions. The CyberKnife-System has been clinically proven to help thousands of cancer patients for over two decades.

Over the forecast period, the increase in cancer incidences around the world is expected to support the growth of the Cyber Knife Market.

The CyberKnife-System is the only radiation therapy delivery system that uses a linear accelerator (linac) directly mounted on a robot to deliver high-energy x-rays or photons. The robot moves and bends around the patient to deliver radiation doses from potentially thousands of different beam angles, vastly expanding the possible positions for concentrating radiation on the tumour while minimising dose to surrounding healthy tissue Cyber Knife. This robotic delivery and real-time image guidance have raised the bar for delivery precision, allowing stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) and stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) to be used for a wide range of tumour types. The CyberKnife-System was created to provide external-beam radiation therapy.

The CyberKnife-System tracks tumours anywhere in the body, and its unique robotic design keeps the radiation on target even when the tumour moves. The CyberKnife-System is the only device that verifies the exact tumour position before delivering the radiation beam and then adjusts the robot to precisely target the tumour. This helps to ensure that radiation is delivered to the tumour rather than where it was moments before. Stereotactic Radiosurgery (SRS) is also known as Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT). The Cyber Knife also includes Synchrony, the world's only real-time adaptive delivery technology. Synchrony adapts radiation treatment delivery to tumours in motion by precisely and accurately synchronising the treatment delivery beam position to the target location during the delivery of a treatment fraction. The advanced motion synchronisation technology eliminates the need for patients to be restrained or to hold their breath, for example.

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