Thursday, July 24, 2008

Saint Francis Hospital gets approval for Cyberknife

from Memphis Commercial Appeal

>>A state board's decision means Saint Francis Hospital-Memphis on Park Avenue can pursue a $6.7 million project to buy a big radiation surgery system and construct space to house it.

"We are extremely pleased," Saint Francis spokeswoman Marilynn Sasportas Robinson said. "We think it's a wonderful outcome for the citizens in Memphis and this region in terms of having another option that's noninvasive for treatment."

Today, Accuray also issued this P/R:

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St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital to Add CyberKnife System to Treatment Offerings

SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Accuray Incorporated (Nasdaq: ARAY - News), a global leader in the field of radiosurgery, today announced that St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital in Houston has purchased a CyberKnife® Robotic Radiosurgery System to further expand treatment offerings for its nationally recognized NeuroScience Center program. The CyberKnife System will be installed in a newly constructed facility designed to expand the hospital's radiation oncology facility.

St. Luke's has been ranked by U.S. News & World Report as one of the nation's top 50 hospitals for a number of specialties, including neurology and neurosurgery. It is the only hospital in Houston, and only one of four hospitals in Texas, to be named a Neuroscience Center of Excellence by NeuStrategy, Inc.

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