What’s Going Around: Non-invasive prostate cancer treatment
Washington (DC News now) – September is a month of prostate cancer awareness and according to the National Institute of Cancer (NCI), one in eight men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer for their lives.
Prostate cancer is the cause of death, the second leader behind lung cancer in American men. According to NCI, one of 44 men will die of prostate cancer. However, if caught early, prostate cancer can be improved by different options, including Cyberknife radiation therapy.
Cyberknife is an alternative to cancer surgery and traditional radiation. Technology treats tumors in almost every area of the body with little damage to healthy tissue.
“A machine that allows us to target these tumors with this sensitivity level in a millimeter. And this allows people to finish radiation treatment much faster and often further. [effectively] More than we offer with old radiation equipment, Dr says Dr. Jonathan Lischalk, the Special Service Director of the Genitouriner Cancer program at Medstar Georgetown University Hospital.
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At the Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, cancer specialists, including Lischalk, Cyberkife To treat prostate tumors with extraordinary sensitivity only in five treatment sessions. In contrast, traditional prostate radiation treatment may require up to 40 treatment.
The treatment system contains multiple x -ray cameras and software to determine the exact location of the tumor. A robotic arm uses a linear accelerator directly to the tumor directly than 1,400 to the tumor. The beams can even be directed to the difficult areas of the body.
The beams are sensitive, focusing only on the tumor and minimizing the doses of healthy surrounding tissues. Cyberknife radiation therapy is widely used to treat non -operative or complex tumors. It can also be used for many other types of cancer, such as lung, pancreas, kidney, head and neck, metastatic, brain, spine and skull-base tumors and breast cancers.
The procedure is not invasive and does not include anesthesia, incisions, blood loss or healing time. There is also no hospitalization overnight. Cyberknife is typically standing outpatient that allows you to return home on the same day. Treatment also offers much faster recovery times.
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Patients may return to their normal lives immediately, unlike two to four healing periods that can be expected after traditional prostate surgery, such as prostatectomy, which is the removal of the prostate.
“This is a kind of wrong name. Cyberknife does not cause any pain, you do not see anything, you do not feel anything, you just lie on a table after 30 minutes, you get home and take home. Like getting a x -ray,” he explained.
Medstar Georgetown University Hospital was the first hospital to use the latest technology on the East Coast. Cancer experts, prostate tumors, more than 2,400 patients treating them one of the most effective cancer treatments.
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