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The lesion in the right lower lobe (RLL) was only 6 mm in size but exhibited 18 mm of motion in the superior-inferior direction. Traditional motion management techniques (e.g., abdominal compression, breath hold) are often uncomfortable or inefficient.
A 6-year-old boy presented with a high white blood cell count and a mediastinal mass. He was diagnosed with high-risk T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and treated in the ALLTogether1 trial1. During induction therapy with regimen B, the patient continued to have high levels of minimal residual disease (MRD). Subsequently,
According to the World Health Organization, in 2050 more than 35 million new cancer cases will be diagnosed, a 77 percent increase from the estimated 20 million cases in 20221. Men are anticipated to be the hardest hit, with a study in the journal Cancer finding that global cancer cases
A 45-year-old female patient was diagnosed with pT2N1M0 invasive ductal carcinoma of the left breast. The patient underwent breast conservation surgery with axillary dissection, followed by chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Radiation therapy was delivered by the Radixact® System, the latest generation of the TomoTherapy® Platform with surface guided radiotherapy (SGRT)
Las Vegas CyberKnife worked with Accuray to upgrade their CyberKnife G4 version 9.6 and MultiPlan® version 4.5 to decrease treatment planning times significantly with new planning hardware and optimized software in the first release of Accuray Precision 1.0 and treatment delivery version 11.0.
The Hôpital Notre-Dame du CHUM in Montreal, Canada, hosts a monthly clinic for patients with trigeminal neuralgia, a debilitating nerve disorder, that causes “electric” pain in the face. Eating, teeth brushing, shaving or simply a light gust of wind can trigger pain. In 2012, an 89-year-old male patient suffering from
The CyberKnife System is a non-invasive treatment for cancerous and non-cancerous tumors and other conditions where radiation therapy is indicated. It is used to treat conditions throughout the body, including the prostate, lung, brain, spine, head and neck, liver, pancreas, and kidney, and can be an alternative to surgery or
This case study demonstrates the versatility of the CyberKnife® Treatment Delivery System enabling treatment to be delivered to complex and challenging cases.
Erlanger Health System in Chattanooga, Tennessee, purchased a CyberKnife Robotic Radiosurgery System in December 2010 to develop a stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) program in its Radiation Oncology Department. The CyberKnife System included the Lung Optimized Treatment (LOT) function, which provides fiducial-free SBRT of early-stage lung cancer patients by enabling
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