Cyberknife of Long Island's Team Approach

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Cyberknife of Long Island's treatment uses a team approach where your doctor's work together with you as their central focus. Team members may include a surgeon, radiation oncologist, medical oncologist, medical physicist, nurse, radiation therapist and other team members at Cyberknife of Long Island.  All aspects of your care are coordinated through your dedicated CyberKnife Nurse Coordinator who will guide you through your treatment to make sure you are well informed and comfortable throughout the process. 

Compared to other sterotactic radiosurgery treatments, the Cyberknife offers several advantages to patients which include rapid relief from pain.  Recovery is often immediate given its low risk of complications and the ability to avoid healthy tissue.

What is the Cyberknife?

The Cyberknife is a robotic radiation delivery system that attacks tumors with high doses of radiation from virtually any direction or angle with sub-millimeter accuracy. With stereotactic radiosurgery there is no incision, no cutting and no anesthesia. Radiosurgery does not remove the tumor or lesions, but instead, uses the high doses of focused radiation to destroy tumor cells.  The Cyberknife  continuously and automatically tracks the tumor and patient's position - including the motion that is caused by breathing.  The Cyberknife is the only stereotactic radiosurgery system that can monitor this motion during the treatment using image guidance and the Cyberknife Synchrony System to make sub-millimeter adjustments.  The Cyberknife uses this information to guide and position the radiation beams to precisely target the tumor and spare the surrounding healthy tissue.