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On Thursday, Krista Kowalchuk became the first patient to be treated with the CyberKnife at an Ottawa hospital. She lay on a treatment table without anesthetic and promptly fell asleep as the programmed robotic arm homed in on two tumours in her spine and zapped them with carefully calibrated radiation beams.
On Friday, The Ottawa Hospital unveiled the $3.5-million CyberKnife, which Dr. Jack Kitts, the hospital's chief executive, likened to the wand that Star Trek's Dr. Leonard McCoy used to pass over his mates on the Enterprise to cure all sorts of ailments.
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In the meantime, The Ottawa Hospital Foundation is hoping to raise an additional $685,000 to cover the remaining cost of the CyberKnife. So far, $2.8 million has been raised through private donations.
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