When it comes to the best brain cancer treatment in Miami, turn to the experts at the CyberKnife Center of Miami – South Florida’s premiere radiation cancer treatment center.
Why choose CyberKnife for brain cancer?
- CyberKnife has been approved to treat brain tumors for 25 years.
- It’s a non-surgical option using a form of radiation called stereotactic radiosurgery or SRS, which delivers sub-millimeter precision radiation directly to the tumor while minimizing damage to healthy tissue, making it very different from whole brain radiation because of its accuracy.
- CyberKnife targets tumors in real time. That means if a patient moves his head slightly, CyberKnife moves with the patient.
- This accuracy can minimize life-altering side effects and help preserve your long-term quality of life.
- Patients typically need one to five treatments over a one or two-week period.
- Patients can continue adjunct therapies like chemotherapy or immunotherapy during CyberKnife treatments.
- Patients can also be treated again in the case of recurrence.
“We treat tumors a lot faster, safer and effectively. Because the beams target only the tumor, sparing surrounding tissue from harm, it does a better job at eliminating tumors, with few if any side effects. Because patients require many fewer treatments they can get cancer treatment behind them in much less time, causing the least disruption to their daily lives,” says Dr. Mark Pomper, medical director of CyberKnife Miami and board-certified radiation oncologist.
Plus, patients do not need to use an invasive head frame, like with the Gamma Knife. Instead, they lay comfortably on the table allowing CyberKnife’s robotic precision to do the work.
Just watch this video on YouTube created by Accuray, the maker of CyberKnife, showing patients just how CyberKnife works to target brain tumors without the use of a head frame.
According to Accuray, CyberKnife is safe and effective for brain and spinal tumors, acoustic neuromas, pituitary adenomas and vascular malformations.
Here are just a few of the clinical studies pointing to CyberKnife’s results:
- In a study of 133 brain cancer patients presenting with headaches or seizures, 90% either stabilized or saw symptom improvement after CyberKnife treatment.
- A study of 333 patients treated for cancer that spread to the brain, more than 85% of those patients able to be evaluated saw local tumor control at two years post treatment. In other words, the tumors shrunk or stopped growing.
- In a clinical study of 199 patients who had tumors that couldn’t be surgically treated, or a portion remained after surgery, 92% saw their tumors stabilize or had improvements in their symptoms after CyberKnife treatment.
- CyberKnife’s frameless design offers a precise, non-invasive treatment with clinical outcomes comparable to Gamma Knife – a frame-based treatment — on patients treated with brain metastases and trigeminal neuralgia.
And a comprehensive review of 20 years of published studies released in March about using CyberKnife for meningioma, the most common adult primary brain tumor found, “This treatment modality is a significant advancement, especially for patients contraindicated for surgery or whose tumors are in anatomically challenging position.
CyberKnife Treatment in Miami
CyberKnife Miami opened our doors 20 years ago. We were the first CyberKnife center to open in the Southeast. And we’re the experts in South Florida when it comes to treating brain tumors with CyberKnife.
We’re here to help you whether you come to us first, you’re seeking a second opinion or you’re confused about the right treatment for you.
If you would like to find out more about treatment for brain tumors with CyberKnife, call us at 305-279-2900 or go to our website now for more information www.cyberknifemiami.com.