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How CyberKnife Works
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CyberKnife Information

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CyberKnife Informational Video

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How CyberKnife Works
The CyberKnife System uses image guidance technology and computer controlled robotics to continuously track, detect and correct for tumor and patient movement throughout the treatment. Because of its extreme precision, the CyberKnife System does not require invasive head or body frames to stabilize patient movement, vastly increasing the system’s flexibility.

Unlike traditional radiosurgery systems that can only treat tumors in the head and neck, the CyberKnife System can treat tumors both intracranial (inside the brain) and extracranial (outside the brain). In fact, extracranial treatments currently represent more than 50 percent of CyberKnife System procedures in the United States, including those of the spine, lung, prostate, liver and pancreas. The CyberKnife System provides an additional option to many patients diagnosed with previously inoperable or surgically complex tumors.

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Ed Lane
CHESANING, MI
First CyberKnife Patient
62-year old Ed Lane of Chesaning had life saving brain surgery on a Wednesday afternoon ... and then went home and mowed his lawn.

"I'm just amazed that you can go in there and have something like that done and come home and just live your life normally," Ed says.

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