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The CyberKnife® Radiosurgery Solution:
Early stage Lung Cancer : 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:
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:

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

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