CyberKnife® Stereotactic Radiosurgery

St. Mary’s CyberKnife® Center offers a revolutionary tool in the fight against cancer. Patients who have lesions or tumors previously diagnosed as inoperable or untreatable may benefit from CyberKnife®. The treatment provides non-invasive, precision radiation therapy in five or fewer treatments, compared to 40 treatments in traditional radiation therapy.

Benefits of CyberKnife treatment include:

• Relaxing, pain-free procedure
• Immediate return to normal activity
• No incisions and a greatly reduced risk of infection
• No need for anesthesia
• Unlimited range of motion to treat tumors once considered untreatable
• No damage to surrounding healthy tissues

CyberKnife can treat tumors in the following areas of the body:

• Head
• Neck
• Spine
• Lung
• Pancreas
• Liver
• Kidney
• Pelvis
• Prostate
• Other sites as appropriate

For more information call 304.399.7460 or (800) 9ST-MARY, ext. 7460.