Doctors successfully used the cyberknife to treat cancer
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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To date, a large number of various methods of neutralizing cancer tumors are known. But so far, doctors have not stopped at all on one of them - an ideal cancer treatment has not yet been found.
Employees of the European Center "Cybernock", located in Munich, have developed their innovative technological method.
Cyberknife is a unique tool that is used in photon therapy. The essence of its impact is that the directed light beam acts extremely accurately on cancer cells, without affecting neighboring healthy tissues. This technology helps to zero damage to healthy nearby organs.
Cyberknife treatment can be used to eliminate cancerous tumors at virtually any stage of development, and in an ambulatory setting. The most pleasant moment for patients: this treatment is painless. Often, only one treatment course is sufficient to completely eliminate a cancerous tumor.
According to the head of the organization "Cybernozh", such a procedure meets all the requirements of modern radiosurgery - this is the removal of the cancerous process without adversely affecting 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 to accelerate particles synthesizes ionizing rays, which are sent by a specialist to one specific zone. The rays last for one and a half to three hours. The combination of super-energy rays in one direction leads to the destruction of oncostructures. In addition, the program adapts to the motor activity of the patient and treats, based on information obtained with MRI.
By the way, the previously performed diagnostics with the help of a magnetic resonance tomograph is the first step towards a successful cure of a cancerous tumor. Based on the information received after diagnosis, the specialist conducts radiation treatment. The robotic guide is controlled by a computer program. It is able to move in six directions, exposing any organ to irradiation. Doctors can treat with cancer of the lungs, liver, spinal structures, brain, prostate, eyes and nerves.
The amount of radiation that is delivered to a separate area of tissues can be divided into several elements and used them not immediately, but over a number of procedures. During the procedure the patient is not fixed on the table: the position of his torso is corrected by a specially developed monitoring program.
The method in question is considered one of the newest of its kind. Only in the last year almost 4 thousand patients underwent treatment with a cyberknife. Over the entire period of the existence of this technology, more than a hundred thousand patients have been successfully rescued from cancerous tumors.
