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The CyberKnife system uses real-time image guidance and a robot to deliver doses from thousands of beam angles for delivery accuracy anywhere in the body. (photo: private order)
The cost of Cyberknife treatment starts from 3 lakh rupees, depending on a number of considerations. Experts say patients who have previously been treated with radiation or cancers that have spread or recurred can also receive this treatment
Sub-Millimeter Accuracy, Accurate Tumor Tracking, Non-Invasive and Painless – Apollo Cancer Centre, Chennai has become the first hospital in Southeast Asia to bring in the latest AI-powered robotic radiotherapy device for the treatment of cancers, tumors and neurological disorders.
The S7 generation CyberKnife – which is globally ranked as one of the latest technologies in radiotherapy – was used by the hospital to treat 20 patients last month after it was installed on June 28.
Dr Shankar Vanjipuram, Senior Consultant, Radiation Oncology at Apollo Cancer Centre, Chennai, explained to News18 that “The CyberKnife system is the only radiation delivery system that features a radiation delivery device called a linear accelerator, which is mounted directly on a robot to deliver high-energy X-rays or photons used in radiotherapy.”
The device uses real-time image guidance and a robot to deliver doses from thousands of angles of radiation, setting a new standard for delivery accuracy anywhere in the body.
“The CyberKnife system has been shown to provide excellent control of cancer while reducing the risk of side effects through more than two decades of clinical proof and successful treatment of millions of cancer patients,” said Vanjipuram.
The cost of treatments starts from 3 lakh rupees to 7 lakh rupees, depending on a number of considerations. However, Vangipuram said it may vary depending on a case-by-case basis.
With cancer cases rising globally and scientists scrambling to find ways to treat, Stanford University Medical Center has conducted clinical trials to use the technology in brain tumors, it said last year. It also evaluates chemotherapy and CyberKnife radiation as a combined treatment.
According to the California-based Standford Medicine College of Medicine, “The CyberKnife can deliver radiosurgery by automatically tracking and adjusting a patient’s movement in sync with it, delivering radiation with sub-millimeter accuracy anywhere in the body.”
Latest technology
Headquartered in California, Accuray manufactures the CyberKnife.
The company makes radiation delivery therapies and claims to make the devices “for the most complex conditions while facilitating commonly treatable conditions to meet the full range of patients’ needs.”
Explaining in an email to News18, Apollo Cancer Center, Chennai said the technology is a non-invasive treatment for various types of cancer and conditions that require radiotherapy. It treats tumors throughout the body, including the brain, lungs, spine, prostate, and abdomen. It can be an alternative to surgery for patients with inoperable or complex tumors.
Experts say patients who have previously been treated with radiation or cancers that have spread or recurred can also receive this treatment.
“CyberKnife treatments are typically performed in 1 to 5 sessions,” Apollo Medical Center explained in a note, adding that the treatment sessions are non-invasive outpatient procedures that require no anesthesia or incisions, enabling most patients to continue daily activities over the course of treatment.
How it works?
The technology claims to use “advanced robotics, advanced imaging, and cutting-edge software to deliver highly precise and accurate radiation.”
The CyberKnife system uses real-time image guidance and a robot to deliver doses from thousands of beam angles for delivery accuracy anywhere in the body.
The robot moves and bends around the patient, greatly expanding the possible positions to focus radiation on the tumor while minimizing damage to surrounding healthy tissue.
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