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| Patients at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center now have access to the CyberKnife Robotic Radiosurgery System, a leading-edge, non-surgical intervention that offers new hope in the treatment of several cancers. |
New technology is offering new hope to cancer patients at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, where the latest model of CyberKnife now allows patients to complete courses of radiosurgery therapy in a shorter time than previously possible.
The CyberKnife Robotic Radiosurgery System delivers a powerful, highly precise beam of radiation to tumors while sparing healthy tissue nearby. Physicians are able to use this non-invasive alternative to surgery on cancers of the prostate, lung, brain, spine, liver, pancreas, and kidney.
According to Alan Pollack, M.D., Ph.D., professor and chair of radiation oncology, CyberKnife’s real difference lies in the fact that site disease specialists at Sylvester are now able to use it. “Because this technology is being used by clinical investigators who focus on specific cancers,” Pollack says, “our patients will have access to novel applications in clinical trials designed to take full advantage of the unique capabilities of the CyberKnife.
“We intend to push this technology to its limits with the goal of improving tumor control while lowering patient toxicity,” Pollack adds. “Being at an academic cancer center and working closely with academic medical physicists and other disease site physician specialists in medical and surgical oncology, we are developing conceptually new approaches that have tremendous promise.”
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