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Doctors have successfully used a cyberknife to treat cancer
Last reviewed: 02.07.2025
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Today, a large number of different methods of neutralizing cancerous tumors are known. But doctors have not yet finally settled on any of them - the ideal cancer treatment has not yet been found.
The staff of the European CyberKnife Center, located in Munich, have developed their own innovative technological method.
CyberKnife is a unique tool used in photon therapy. The essence of its effect is that a directed light beam acts extremely precisely on cancer cells without affecting adjacent healthy tissues. This technology helps to reduce damage to healthy nearby organs to zero.
CyberKnife treatment can be used to eliminate cancer tumors at almost any stage of development, and in an outpatient setting. The most pleasant moment for patients: such treatment is painless. Often, just one course of treatment is enough to completely eliminate a cancer tumor.
According to the head of the CyberKnife organization, such a procedure meets all the requirements of modern radiosurgery - it is the removal of the cancerous process without negative impact on healthy tissues and organs.
It can be said that the cyberknife is a kind of scalpel made of a light beam, capable of separating the structural layers of malignant cells, which makes further development of the tumor impossible. The device used, accelerating particles, synthesizes ionizing rays, which are directed by a specialist to one specific area. The rays act for one and a half to three hours. The combination of super-energetic rays in one direction leads to the destruction of oncostructures. In addition, the program adapts to the patient's motor activity and carries out treatment based on the information obtained during MRI.
By the way, a preliminary diagnosis using a magnetic resonance tomograph is the first step to a successful cure for a cancerous tumor. Based on the information obtained after the diagnosis, the specialist conducts radiation therapy. The robotic guide is controlled by a computer program. It is capable of moving in six directions, irradiating any organ. Doctors can treat cancer of the lungs, liver, spinal cord structures, brain, prostate gland, organs of vision and nerves.
The amount of radiation delivered to a specific tissue area can be divided into several elements and used not immediately, but over a series of procedures. During the procedure, the patient is not fixed on the table: the position of his body is adjusted by a specially developed monitoring program.
The method in question is considered one of the newest of its kind. In the last year alone, almost 4,000 patients have undergone cyberknife treatment. Over the entire period of this technology's existence, more than a hundred thousand patients have been successfully cured of cancerous tumors.