Radiotherapy – radiation treatment with CyberKnife Radiosurgery

CyberKnife is a system that enables cancer treatment with millimeter precision using robotic radiosurgery technology. Unlike conventional radiosurgery methods, CyberKnife combines a system that locates the target through imaging and provides guidance throughout treatment with a computer-controlled robotic system, allowing tumors to be irradiated with high precision. Normal tissues can be protected to a high degree from the effects of radiation.

The use of CyberKnife is particularly associated with the treatment of intracranial tumors. These formations may be brain metastases or primary benign and malignant tumors of the brain. Extracranial conditions in which CyberKnife is used include head and neck cancers, lung cancers, liver cancers, pancreatic cancer, soft tissue tumors, spinal tumors, prostate cancer, metastatic cancers and recurrent cancers.

Advantages of the CyberKnife radiosurgery system

• It can be administered without pain
• It is noninvasive (does not involve an invasive intervention)
• There is no need for anesthesia
• It is an outpatient treatment method
• It protects healthy tissues and organs surrounding the tumor with high accuracy, and therefore the risk of side effects is very low
• There is no need to hold your breath in any way during treatment 

CyberKnife is essentially an advanced linear accelerator mounted on robots used in industry. Stereotactic Radiosurgery (SRS), which means treating a target with the help of coordinates, involves determining the coordinates in three dimensions and then using a high doseof radiation to completely destroy the tumor in a single session. When this treatment is administered over more than one session, usually 3-5 sessions, it is called Stereotactic Radiotherapy (SRT).

It allows repeated treatment

CyberKnife is also used in patients who have previously received radiotherapy but whose disease has recurred in the same area. A second application can be performed for these types of tumors.