CyberKnife - Melanoma - Physician Information

Introduction The CyberKnife System Why is it Different? Benefits Technical Information

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CyberKnife® radiosurgery - Numerous applications:
Soft tissue/Deep lymph node metastases
Compared with traditional radiotherapy, the fine dose sculpting of CyberKnife® radiosurgery allows better normal tissue sparing around soft tissue lesions, enabling the effective application of large dose per fraction radiosurgery, delivering optimized radiation which uniquely matches the radiobiologic characteristics of melanoma (13,14,15).

CyberKnife targeting angles
Image adapted from
"Robotic Radiosurgery" - First Edition

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Written by Donald B. Fuller, M.D. – Radiation Oncologist

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