CyberKnife Radiation Treatment in India

The CyberKnife System is a non-invasive treatment for tumors, both cancerous and non-cancerous, as well as other disorders that require radiation therapy. This cutting-edge technology can be used to treat conditions in the prostate, lung, brain, spine, head and neck, liver, pancreas, and kidney, and can be utilized as an alternative to surgery for patients with inoperable or complex surgically complicated tumors. Treatments with the CyberKnife are usually completed in one to five sessions. CyberKnife radiation has been used to help thousands of cancer patients for more than two decades.

CyberKnife Radiosurgery: How does it work?

CyberKnife treatment does not require any painful and complex surgery procedures. It is the first and only radiotherapy device that brings robotic precision to the treatment and tracks the tumor-motion in real-time. It is a machine that generates radiation beams individually, each radiation beam is not sufficient to cause harm  but the convergence of all the beams results in a powerful dose of radiation at the tumor. The machine is attached to a robotic arm for aiming and targeting the radiation beam on the tumor.

• The patient will lie on the treatment table with the robotic arms of the machine around him/her. Generally, no sedation is required because the procedure is painless.
• You will be asked to wear comfortable clothing with no jewelry.
• The process will be started by acquiring the first set of X-rays and the robotic arm will adjust to its position to deliver the first treatment beam.
• As the X-ray system re-acquires the target and the robotic arm realigns the linear accelerator from many different places, this procedure is repeated many times – typically more than 100 times.
• A precise radiation beam is supplied at each angle.

In this entire process of  CyberKnife treatment, the image-guidance system utilizes bony landmarks or implanted fiducial markers to track the exact location of the tumor for accurate and precise results. Breathing, coughing, and other bodily motions might cause the tumor to shift slightly in its position. When this happens, there's a great possibility that linear accelerators in the robotic arm will miss a sight of the tumor or injure surrounding organs. Radiologists can deliver high dosage radiation to the target area in less time because of CyberKnife's precise technology.

Conditions that can be Treated by CyberKnife RadioSurgery

The CyberKnife system is the only radiation therapy delivery system that uses a linear accelerator (linac) directly installed on a robot to deliver high-energy x-rays or photons. The robot moves and bends around the patient, delivering radiation doses from thousands of different beam angles. This significantly increases the number of feasible sites for concentrating radiation on the tumor while limiting damage to healthy tissue. This robotic delivery and real-time imaging guidance have raised the bar for delivery precision, allowing stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) and stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) to be used for a wide spectrum of tumor types.

Multiple types of tumors and cancer can be treated with CyberKnife radiation including:

• Arteriovenous malformations
• Bone metastases
• Brain tumors and brain metastases
• Kidney tumors
• Liver tumors
• Lung tumors
• Ocular/Orbital tumors
• Pancreatic cancer
• Prostate cancer
• Spinal tumors
• Trigeminal neuralgia

Benefits of CyberKnife RadioSurgery

CyberKnife is the latest robot assisted radiosurgery system of delivering precision radiotherapy for painless CyberKnife cancer treatment without any cuts or stitches on the body.

Here are some benefits of CyberKnife cancer treatment:

• Traditional radiotherapy employs a far lower amount of radiation than CyberKnife radiation. Traditional therapy uses two to seven beams of radiation, but CyberKnife uses more than 100 beams from a greater variety of angles. As a result, CyberKnife RadioSurgery is substantially more potent.
• CyberKnife uses robotic assistance to target radiation beams exactly at cancerous tissue, which is why so little radiation is utilized to protect healthy tissue. It means it causes less side effects.
• Doctors can administer a much more powerful dose with CyberKnife radiation, that means fewer sessions are required. Traditional radiation requires multiple weeks of daily sessions, but CyberKnife just requires one to five sessions.
• Due to its ability to target the diseased tissue, CyberKnife radiation is more accurate. Its image-guidance system utilizes bony landmarks or implanted fiducial markers to track the exact location of the tumor.
• Even when surgery is an option, it requires the removal of a margin of healthy tissue around the cancerous tissue. CyberKnife is just as effective as surgery for removing cancerous tissue from the body, but eliminates the need to remove healthy tissue.
• During treatment, the CyberKnife also enhances comfort. Other types of radiosurgery necessitate the use of uncomfortable, rigid head frames. CyberKnife, on the other hand, allows patients to unwind during therapy without being restricted.

CyberKnife VS GammaKnife: What’s the Difference?

Both the Gamma Knife and the CyberKnife are clinically proven techniques for delivering high dose radiation to tumors and cancers with sub-millimeter precision. The similarities, however, end there. The CyberKnife has evolved from the traditional Gamma Knife technology to improve patient comfort during and after treatment while also expanding the body areas that can be treated. CyberKnife, like Gamma Knife, can perform dedicated stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS), but it can also give stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT), also known as stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR), which allows it to treat the entire body, not just the brain and cervical spine.

Here are the key differences between CyberKnife and GammaKnife

Recommended Doctors for CyberKnife Cancer Treatment

CureIndia assists you in finding the best doctor for your healthcare needs. The majority of our affiliated hospitals' doctors have had international training and are members of numerous international medical councils and societies. We take pleasure in ensuring our patients' complete safety during these treatments and giving the best post-operative care available.

Our goal is to provide the best possible results at the most reasonable price for our patients. In the Delhi NCR region, we give treatments to our patients in a number of locations. Let's hear from Dr. Aditya Gupta, one of India's greatest neurosurgeons.

Dr. Aditya Gupta

Dr. Aditya Gupta was later promoted to Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, a position he held until 2009. He then co-founded the Institute of Neurosciences at Medanta, where he served as Additional Director, Neurosurgery, until mid-2016. He not only has excellent surgical techniques for a wide variety of brain tumors, with an emphasis on microsurgery and radiosurgery, but he also has special and unique skills in managing patients with Movement Disorders with Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS), Epilepsy Surgery, Nerve, and Brachial Plexus Surgery, Brain aneurysms, and AVMs. He also specializes in all types of spine surgery.

Testimonials: What Our Patients Say?

CureIndia has assisted hundreds of patients in getting their neurosurgery done in India by the best neurosurgeons.The majority of our affiliated hospitals' doctors have had international training and are members of numerous international medical councils and societies. We take pleasure in ensuring our patients' complete safety during these treatments and giving the best post-operative care available. Our goal is to provide the best possible results at the most reasonable price for our patients. In the Delhi NCR region, we give treatments to our patients in a number of locations. Let's hear from Dr. Aditya Gupta, one of India's greatest neurosurgeons.

Patient from Yemen

“ I thank God that we contacted CureIndia. They took care of everything and provided good hospitality services. They made all the arrangements in Hospital and in the hotel. Also, the medical treatment is good in India at affordable cost. In Yemen, we got information about the CyberKnife technology for the treatment of brain tumors. Then, we came to India and opted for CyberKnife treatment. A big thanks to CureIndia”.

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