What is stereotactic radiosurgery, and how is CyberKnife Stereotactic Radiosurgery different?
During stereotactic radiosurgery, high doses of focused radiation beams are delivered from outside of your body to destroy a tumor or lesion inside of your body. It does not remove the tumor or lesion. Instead, it destroys tumor cells or stops tumor growth. Traditional stereotactic radiosurgery methods use an uncomfortable metal frame that is bolted to your skull to target the treatment. Because of the need for the metal frame, radiosurgery could only treat tumors in your head – until now. CyberKnife is an entirely new approach to stereotactic radiosurgery. It can deliver targeted radiation to anywhere in your body with sub-millimeter accuracy, thus protecting the surrounding healthy tissue. It offers you all of the advantages of radiosurgery, but without the need for a painful metal head frame. CyberKnife can give you surgical results without surgery or incisions — that means no scalpels, no blood, no pain and virtually no recovery time.
