Lung Cancer
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Virtually unlimited number of targeting angles
The CyberKnife® device treats a lung cancer from up to several hundred different directions, all designed on the computer to intersect through the cancer volume, compared with 2-6 directions using “conventional” radiotherapy. Because the CyberKnife® radiation beams come from so many different directions, there is very little radiation dose to normal tissues far away from the cancer target area, again increasing the safety of the treatment, even as its power against the cancer itself is increased, due to the extreme concentration of radiation dose within the target cancer itself.
Hundreds of individual beams from CyberKnife® converge on the target
Written by Donald B. Fuller, M.D. – Radiation Oncologist