> You're downplaying the significance too much.
No, I'm not; I'd say you're overplaying its significance. The CyberKnife is not some kind of new treatment. It's the same old treatment applied in a different way. It generally improves the impact of radiotherapy on the patient, but as far as cancerous tissue goes, it's 100% the same. "The significance of CyberKnife" regarding cancerous tissue is 0.
Let me restate it. CyberKnife doesn't improve radiotherapy with a new radiation device which creates some kind of different ionizing radiation which is more effective against cancerous tissue. It uses the same device used in other radiotherapy machinery (something like SRBT ESRB or that), creating the same radiation as hundreds or thousands of other radiotherapy machines around the world.
To quote from Wikipedia: "The CyberKnife system is a method of delivering radiotherapy". And I don't see anything different stated anywhere in the two official sites either.
> > Of course the cyber knife machine isn't useful for breast cancer, but one of the main
> points is that this woman with stage 4 cancer in her intestines, was treated 4 times
> in 4 days. That was it. Clean bill of health. I'd say that's pretty damn amazing.
If she was treated with the same kind of radiotherapy she would have had her cancer cured as well. CyberKnife would have only improved her recovery time after radiotherapy.
Chemotherapy is a killer for sure. My father died of lung cancer with multiple metastasis. Surgery wasn't an option and I don't remember why radiotherapy was discarded as well, maybe the extension. When he was undergoing chemo he was in a worst state than without it. But anyway, he had so many diseases and organ malfunctions that even if he didn't had cancer he wouldn't have lived much longer anyway.
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