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CyberKnife® Stereotactic Radiosurgery
Overview
Stereotactic radiosurgery, sometimes also referred to as stereotactic radiotherapy, is a new technique that shows great promise in the treatment of early stage lung cancer, in patients who may not be healthy enough to withstand the customary curative surgical procedure (10 - 13).
CyberKnife® Technical Solutions
Early stage Lung Cancer
CyberKnife® radiosurgery effectively addresses all of the technical limitations of standard radiotherapy, resulting in a very sophisticated method to deliver a far more biologically potent dose of radiation to an early stage lung cancer, with surgical precision. Briefly, these include:
Written by Donald B. Fuller, M.D. – Radiation Oncologist