An effective, less disruptive treatment option
The unparalleled precision and motion synchronization capabilities of the CyberKnife System maximize radiation delivered to the target — while helping to minimize dose to surrounding healthy tissues. The result is highly effective treatment that eliminates many of the inconveniences of other treatments — and significantly reduces the risk of the side effects that too often disrupt the lives of patients during and after treatment. In fact, the hypofractionated, high-dose radiosurgery delivered by the CyberKnife System is emerging as a ground-breaking treatment option — showing evidence of improved tumor control and patient survival when treatment wasn’t possible with conventional radiotherapy or surgery. CyberKnife treatments are typically delivered in 1 to 2 weeks.
CYBERKNIFE VS. SURGERY
CyberKnife treatment is an outpatient procedure that requires no incisions, no general anesthesia, no hospitalization and no long recovery period.
Liver Cancer
Unrivaled precision to protect liver function.
The liver has many important functions in the body. That’s why when treating liver cancer, it’s important to avoid damaging normal liver tissue as much as possible. Advanced radiation techniques, such as stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) delivered with the CyberKnife System, provide physicians with an option to effectively treat the tumor while minimizing radiation to nearby healthy tissues.
The CyberKnife System, the world’s only robotic radiosurgery system, offers a proven, non-surgical approach to the treatment of liver tumors. Throughout the treatment, the CyberKnife System’s unique real-time motion synchronization technology tracks the position of the tumor and simultaneously moves the robot to adapt the delivery of the radiation beam precisely to the moving target. Abdominal tumors, such as liver tumors, move with a patient’s respiration. Preserving as much healthy liver tissue as possible makes the ability to track, detect, and adapt for this motion critically important. The CyberKnife System’s robotic design and motion synchronization technology enable the delivery of radiation with extreme precision. This surgical-like precision is key to providing the best possible long-term cancer control, while minimizing dose to surrounding healthy tissues to reduce the risk of side effects and preserve liver function. CyberKnife treatment may be an ideal option for patients who cannot undergo surgery and/or whose tumors cannot be completely removed with surgery. The CyberKnife System can also be used as a bridge to transplantation.
Key CyberKnife® treatment benefits
- Non-surgical and non-invasive
- Good results for inoperable tumors
- Treatments typically completed in 1-5 treatment sessions on consecutive days
- Most patients can continue normal activity throughout treatment
Most radiation side effects are minimal and last only a short time. Side effects can, however, be severe.