Cyberknife Radiosurgery Coming to Suffolk County - A new era in cancer treatment

Cyberknife of Long Island, part of North Shore Radiation Therapy is proud to offer a ground-breaking cancer treatment - the CyberKnife® Robotic Radiosurgery System. The CyberKnife is the world’s first and only radiosurgery system designed to pinpoint and destroy tumors in the body. In many cases, the treatment offers new hope to patients who were considered untreatable or inoperable, who may be looking for an alternative to surgery, or who have recieved radiation therapy in the past, but still require further treatment.

What is the CyberKnife?

The CyberKnife System is a computer-controlled, robotic radiation delivery system that attacks tumors with high doses of radiation from virtually any direction or angle with sub-millimeter accuracy. With stereotactic radiosurgery there is no incision, cutting or anesthesia. Radiosurgery does not remove the tumor or lesions, but instead, uses the high doses of focused radiation to destroy tumor cells and stop the growth of cancer cells.At the core of the CyberKnife System is technology that continuously and automatically tracks the tumor’s and patient’s position – including his or her respiratory motion. It uses this information to guide and position the radiation beams to precisely target the tumor, while carefully sparing the surrounding healthy tissue.

Conditions Treated with the CyberKnife

The following conditions can be successfully treated with Cyberknife:

• Lung cancers
• Prostate cancer
• Brain
• Liver cancer
• Spine tumors
• Pancreatic cancers
• Head and Neck
• Other places in the body where radiation treatment is indicated

My next post will discuss the wide array of treatment options available to the community without the need to travel to New York City!