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#40351 09-26-2006 06:47 PM | Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) |  Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | Here's a link to the inventors of the CyberKnife: http://cancer.stanfordhospital.com/forPatients/services/cyberknife/default The newer generation of the device are a robotic arm with a miniaturized linear accelerator. It is actually quite different from the GammaKnife and certainly more versatle. The original Gamma Knife was a huge contraption and they bolted a device to your head that resembled a collander that provided the beam entry ports. The design limited it to mainly brain tumors. See http://www.ucsf.edu/gammakf/ I don't believe that anyone here has had Gamma or Cyber Knife treatment specifically for head & neck cancer although some have had the procedure for brain metastesis.
Gary Allsebrook
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Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2
Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy)
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