> Not urban legend; It was an actual story. I watched it with my wife while she
> translated for me. This woman actually had stage 4 cancer. She now has none. She was
> interviewed and stuff (and it actually took place earlier THIS YEAR.
To clarify: the urban legend is "miraculous machine can cure cancer without surgery". If that were true, every oncogenic treatment would be instantly outdated.
Ok, let me explain further. To treat some cancer tissue, you use radiotherapy of various kinds. You apply radiotherapy to the zone, and the cancer goes away or stays. CiberKnife is only a method to apply the same radiotherapy to the zone in a more accurate way, without radiating so much non-cancerigenous tissue. So while it could be regarded as "generally better" for the patient, it has nothing to do with survivability against the cancer. Wether the cancer goes or stays has nothing to do with how you apply the radiation to the zone, or the angle at you apply it, or the amount of surrounding tissue affected as well, as long as you apply the same amount in the same zone.
I don't dispute that a patient recovered after radiotherapy. I just say that if such cancer was affected by the radiotherapy, if she was treated by normal radiotherapy methods, she would have been cured as well. The use of CyberKnife is circumstancial, whatever their propaganda machine or news hype wants us to believe.
Despite having "knife" in its name, it has to do nothing with surgery. And the only improvement is the way of applying the radiotherapy, not the kind of exact radiotherapy it applies. There are other machines which use the same radiation device.
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