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CyberKnife® radiosurgery - Numerous applications:
Soft tissue/Deep lymph node  metastases

The fine dose sculpting of CyberKnife® radiosurgery allows better normal tissue sparing surrounding soft tissue lesions compared with traditional radiotherapy, 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
Lymph Node
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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